Azwer denounces resignation letters

Letters of resignation obtained by UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe have no validity at all, said Presidential Advisor and UPFA National List candidate A.H.M. Azwer addressing an election meeting at Dharga Town.

He said that when a leader obtains undated letters of resignation from his candidates, what does it mean? It means that he has no confidence in his candidates.

He has no confidence in his own candidates how can he and what is the moral right he has got to ask the voters to vote for such candidates.

When his late uncle J.R. Jayewardene obtained such undated letters from his then candidates, it is on record to say that Sam Wijesinghe, the Secretary General of Parliament, an expert on Parliamentary practice and procedure, told Jayewardene that he would not accept those letters when submitted.

Jayewardene had then told Wijesinghe, if that was the position he would find an alternative method.

The letters of resignation obtained by Ranil Wickremesinghe are not worth twopence, my former colleague should give a bit of advice to his colleagues to run this race like Cotton Hall and not run with its legs in chains, although the large majority of them would not get to the victory post.

On the contrary President Mahinda Rajapaksa has full confidence in his candidates, therefore he has not resorted to such meandering political jigsaws, Azwer added.