Achievements under Mahinda Chinthana:

Fulfilling people's aspirations

Amidst of accusation by certain segments of the political domain that no significant change has been delivered to fill the socio-economic gap under 'Mahinda Chinthanaya' the government replied that it was satisfied with the progress that had been achieved during the last two years while bringing military victories to regain peace and defeat decades-long terrorism.

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Media attempts to sign 'death warrants' fail:

Casualties are the same be it Lanka or Iraq

There had been several attempts over the week to issue death certificates of soldiers who are still alive through many media reports in the aftermath of the Muhamalai limited operation by the Security Forces to destabilise the Forward Defences of the LTTE in the Jaffna peninsula. Once again there had been attempts to highlight the Muhamalai incident as yet another debacle exactly like in October last year.

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Crossovers small.... No storms, only winds - PM

Sunday Meeting with Shanika Sriyananda

Prime Minister Wickremanayake said that crossing over to Opposition from the Government and vice versa was not a new phenomenon and was common in democracies. 'I am quite confident that the Government is very stable. There may be small winds blowing this way and that way but they are not storms, remember they are only small winds', he said.

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