President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the “Puluwan Sri Lanka” agreement, signed by 34 political parties and alliances, was not intended to create a new political party but to unite the nation and build a brighter future for the country and its people.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has neither an intention to ally with, or expectation of support from, former president Sajith Premadasa, says the party’s media spokesman S.M. Marikkar.
The SLFP faction led by former president Maithripala Sirisena has decided to join the SJB in support of its presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.
Various reforms in the past two years have enabled Sri Lanka to come up in NGO benchmarks, said senior consultant at CAPS Kithmina Withanage.
The country needs politics of principles and not the opportunistic parties that keep their saloon doors open for anyone to enter, said NPP presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
SJB presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa is the certain winner at the presidential polls by polling more than 50 per cent of the votes in the first round, said the party’s deputy national organizer S.M. Marikkar.
The first ever National Social Protection Policy for Sri Lanka has been developed by the Department of National Planning of the Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies Ministry.
The 78th Independence Day of India was celebrated with great fervour in different parts of Sri Lanka today (15).
