Choose the candidate with the best manifesto: CBK
Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga urged the public to take into consideration the policies put forth by the presidential candidates when casting their vote at the forthcoming presidential election.
Kumaratunga was speaking at the ‘Api Sri Lanka’ convention, an SLFP rebel convention held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.
She said SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s manifesto was a collection of beautiful words.
“Gotabaya says he will bring back freedom and eliminate corruption. I consider this a huge joke, “she said.
“What did the Rajapaksa’s do when they were in power? Did they increase salaries of state workers, did they uplift the agriculture sector as they say they will do in their current manifesto?”
Kumaratunga went on to say that the Rajapaksa’s have done more harm to the SLFP as opposed to the United National Party (UNP). She said the UNP had assured the SLFP was given a place in the current government.
Meanwhile, UPFA Parliamentarian Kumara Welgama speaking at the convention said if the SLPP was voted into power it would be the end of the SLFP.
Welgama advised the public to refrain from voting for those who have destroyed the SLFP.
“I cannot tell the public to vote for a specific person, however I can say I wouldn’t be voting for the Rajapaksas.”
(Source: The Morning)
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Funny you should advise other on choosing the ‘best manifesto” when your manifesto one time was to make the LTTE chief Prabhakaran the indisputable, uncontested Head of the combined North & East provinces for 20-years and also to let the LTTE have nearly U$3Billion dollars of Tsunami aid, to use as it sees fit, with again no dispute or contest to it by any other! Please, we thought you faded out from our radar for good (and for the good of our motherland), but alas, that appears to be not the case. How sad it is this for Sri Lanka!
EC Chairman, Mahinda Deshapriya, should take a tough stand and prevent further disintegration of our Nation by declaring Gothabhaya Rajapaksa as the duly elected president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, without any further delay.
What are the Criteria for picking the ‘Best Manifesto’?
They all look glossy, huge photos of the future ‘comedian’ rulers and a pack of lies from beginning to end.
None have independent social and economic evaluations of the proposals.
Many high-economic value items being given free, taxes lowered or abolished, billions of money to be spent in social and economic programs etc etc.
Any voter who has completed at least OL should be able to visualise the load of bull in all manifestos.