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Allied parties express willingness to work with new Alliance by deepal warnakulasuriya The inaugural rally of the newly set up SLFP-JVP Alliance was held at the Town Hall grounds on Thursday with mammoth crowd from all parts of the country participating. The Alliance leaders promising that they would be seeking a true and all inclusive concrete solution to the ethnic problem assured transparent negotiations with the LTTE would be held with the collaboration of all the political parties as the LTTE had agreed to talk with anyone who had a legitimacy and a people's mandate. Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse, JVP Leader Somawansa Amarasinghe, SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena, Chief Opposition Whip Mangala Samaraweera, PA Parliamentarian Anura Bandaranaike, JVP General Secretary Tylvin Silva, PA General Secretary D. M. Jayaratne, JVP MP Wimal Weerawansa, MEP Leader Dinesh Gunawardene, NUA Leader Ferial Ashraff and a number of eminent persons addressed the gathering. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga sending a message to the inaugural rally said that they were successful to build up a progressive consensus to usher in peace and harmony, economic uplift and social justice in all spheres of life, in broad sense. He also had mentioned that the Alliance will succeed in defeating the deceitful UNF. Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, National Unity Alliance and several other PA allied parties who addressed the rally expressed their willingness to work with the new Alliance and said that they would be assisting the alliance to regain the country's lost glory. |
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