'Opposition will disintegrate by 2015'

by Nadira Gunatilleke

The biggest problem faced by the Opposition at present is not winning the upcoming Parliamentary election, but to have an Opposition in 2015, Urban Development Minister and Matale SLFP Organiser Rohana Kumara Dissanayake said.

Addressing a press briefing held in Colombo, Minister Dissanayake said that even within this evil system President Mahinda Rajapaksa solved problems among the candidates by offering all of them `District Organiser' posts. Now there are no barriers for the UPFA candidates to canvass in other electorates. These days the UNP is very busy counting SMS and they are trying to select the best lie that should be used as the main excuse after getting defeated at the upcoming General Election.

According to Minister Dissanayake no one can say that the country had not been developed or infrastructure facilities were not developed during the past few years. Mathata Thitha has reduced minor complaints of rural areas by 30 percent.

The only thing that this Government couldn't do is giving wisdom to the JVP and to the UNP. The JVP has no ability to obtain at least two seats at the upcoming General Election. During the recent Presidential Election the UNP and the JVP joined hands and `got married' but it seems the marriage ended in a divorce by the time of the General Election. There was a prediction last year about a possible doomsday in 2010 but it seems this doomsday brought good luck to Sri Lanka by marking the end of the JVP in 2010. It was not the world or country which is going to be destroyed. It is the destructive elements which are going to be destroyed.

A large number of UNP and JVP members in Matale obtained the membership of the SLFP recently, the Minister added.