A former Sri Lankan defense chief who is a front-runner in next month’s presidential election said Tuesday that if he wins, he won’t recognize an agreement the government made with the U.N. human rights council to investigate alleged war crimes during the nation’s civil war.

SLPP Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa today dismissed allegations that many went missing after surrendering to the military during the end of the war.

Presidential candidate of the New Democratic Front Minister Sajith Premadasa promises an industrial revolution that will enable the creation of jobs for the youth of the country.

The Special High Court has decided to take up the trial of D.A. Rajapaksa Museum case on the 9th of January.

It was good to handover responsibilities relating to national security to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, National Peoples Movement (NPM) presidential candidate and former Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake said.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress will support the Presidential Candidate of the New Democratic Front, Sajith Premadasa, at the forthcoming election, Minister Rauff Hakeem said.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has promised to give leadership to the new movement to protect the Sri Lanka Freedom Party that has arisen after the current leadership signed and alliance with the SLPP.

SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today their political camp should not give in to conspiracies of political opponents.

The Presidential candidate of the National Movement for People’s Power Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake says a revolutionary change must be created within the education industry.

One person was hospitalised when the police opened fire at a jeep in which a group of excise officers were travelling in at Araiviyal Nagar in Kilinochchi this morning.

No international actor will try to interfere in Sri Lanka’s approaching presidential election, said Basil Rajapaksa, chief strategist of his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidential bid.

Ven. Dambara Amila Thera, Prof. Chandragupta Thenuwara and Saman Ratnapriya, yesterday, downplayed the importance of the SLPP’s victory at the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha election on Oct 11.

Sri Lanka’s former defense chief, a front-runner in next month’s presidential election, said Sunday that he would empower the state’s intelligence sector with necessary legal cover to help secure the country in the aftermath of the deadly Easter Sunday bomb blasts.

The Ceylon Workers’ Congress led by Arumugam Thondaman pledges support to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the upcoming presidential election.

President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to stay “neutral” at November 16 presidential election may deny him any office in the Sri Lanka People’s Alliance which is fielding former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its candidate.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says that he is not supporting any party or candidate in the Presidential Election, scheduled for November 16.