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Rajitha confirms SL Presidential polls first
Thursday, 19 November 2009 - 10:33 AM SL Time
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Construction and Engineering Services Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne yesterday said that the government would hold the presidential election ahead of parliamentary elections before April next year. Addressing a press conference, at the Mahaweli Centre, chaired by SLFP heavyweight Dallas Alahapperuma, Senaratne said that the presidential poll would follow elections to the Southern Provincial Council scheduled for October 10. He said that once the ruling coalition had bagged parliamentary electorates with an overwhelming majority, there would be no elections until 2015.
Senaratne said that the UNP or the so-called joint Opposition would not be in a position to face either presidential or parliamentary elections following a series of heavy defeats at the hands of the ruling coalition. Rajitha, who switched his allegiance to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January 2006, said that UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and his chief assistant Mangala Samaraweera, MP could not even find an opposition candidate. An attempt to rally the Opposition was nothing but a joke, he said.
Dallas Alahapperuma, too, signalled that a lacklustre campaign spear headed by the JVP and Mangala Samaraweera calling for the abolition of the executive presidency would not produce any result. The Transport Minister said that the bankrupt JVP had revived a 15-year-old slogan. The JVP campaign against the executive presidency was irrelevant, he said.
He accused an influential section of the Opposition and the media of manipulating contentious issues, such as IDPs accommodated at welfare centres in the north and the spurious Channel 4 report on the execution of LTTE cadres by the Sri Lanka army to undermine the State and the Rajapaksa administration. He recalled an Opposition attempt a few weeks before the final battle on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon to politicise a presidential directive not to engage the LTTE with heavy arms. The Opposition depicted this as an Indian intervention similar to that of during Operation Liberation to clear Vadamaradchi in 1987.
Had the armed forces gone all out regardless of civilian losses, the number of people, now accommodated at welfare centres would be very much fewer, he said.
Mangala Samaraweera had been one of the harshest critics of Wickremesinghe though they were now on one side. `If you bothered to go through past newspapers, particularly in 2004 you could see what Samaraweera said about Wickremesinghe,` he said.
Minister Senaratne said that Wickremesinghe had made matters worse for him and the party by promoting the interests of his personal friends. He said that promoting Sagala Ratnayaka, MP over Justin Galappathy, Opposition Leader of the Southern Provincial Council had weakened the UNP in the Matara District. He said that there had been trouble also in the Kurunegala District due to Wickremesinghe s support to Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, another favourite of the UNP leader. He also pointed out the absurdity of promoting Mangala Samaraweera at the expense of UNP National Organiser S. B. Dissanayake. This was another folly. By at the end of parliamentary elections early next year, Wickremesinghe would be left with only Mangala, Akila and Sagala, he said.
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rswkv
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 19 Nov 2009 12:35:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Minister Senaratne said that Wickremesinghe had made matters worse for him and the party by promoting the interests of his personal friends.
That is same for the president..
Dr. Rajitha Senaratne yesterday said that the government would hold the presidential election ahead of parliamentary elections before April next year
If PE is held I'm pretty sure there will be a change..
It would be the most stupid decision on the part of the President.. |
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Mr.Rajitha Senaratne is the most unpopular parliamentarian. He got a big and undisciplined mouth and thinks can shatter every pillar.
He was found entangled in scandal stealing dental chairs while we was working in the Colombo hospital.
Never seen in his electorate alleged. Put up a palace in Wadduwa out of BMC's stolen property and bribes.
Won election on UNP ticket and swapped the side for his personnel gains to become a minister and now in dilemma because of the SF's appearance.
He may change the sides again but never will win the votes of his electorate.
Edited By - seenimalli - 19 Nov 2009 19:59:08 GMT |
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 20 Nov 2009 00:06:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rajitha confirms SL Presidential polls first
Dr.Foul Mouth was silent for some time, seems to be oiling his vocal chords for election work!!! |
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 20 Nov 2009 08:15:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Won election on UNP ticket
2005 RW lost due to some Jokers like this Dental Dr.
Even with out Tamil vote RW could have come if he chase these men earlier and avoid association with them.
Hope they will do the same MR this time if the Prez election comes first. Otherwise Dr. is sure to loose his parliamentary seat.
Edited By - Gamegodaya - 20 Nov 2009 08:19:56 GMT |
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Won election on UNP ticket and swapped the side for his personnel gains karu is the master mind of this cross over but he is back but he is unable to take his son in law even but RW give bak him all his previous status in the party |
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20 Nov 2009 22:07:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Dath Dosthara Rajitha Senarane OMI (open mouth idiot) will go to the Political Wilderness soon. Mahinda Samarasinghe left the UNP because of this guy and how this Dohstharaya castigated Maihinda S. when he crossed over but a few months later this OMI drifted and he became the most vociferous attacker on RW calling him all the gutter terminologies. Mahinda S did criticized RW on policy matters never attack him on his personality. So are the caliber of Keheliya, Sarath A, Karu J, Milnda M, Prof:GLP and even some others. |
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 22 Nov 2009 10:06:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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Danuna registered the business in Oklahoma, as well as in Texas. Also he registered his business in Colombo too.
He registered Hicorp Company in Oklahoma in his name, but suddenly on Nov 16, 2009, he changed the registration in favor of some other person apparently after he got the wind of Asian Tribune s investigations into his dealings
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/11/22/every-bullet-fired-innocent-tamil-civilians-fetched-kickbacks-gen-fonseka-family
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/11/22/every-bullet-fired-innocent-tamil-civilians-fetched-kickbacks-gen-fonseka-family |
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Jayantha1951
Do you know who Ruwinda Gunaratne is and what his connection is to SF and the s-i-l??????? |
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