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CWC demands compatible with UPFA program by Rohan Mathes Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera told the Sunday Observer that proposals put forward by the CWC prior to joining the government were compatible with the UPFA's "Rata Perata" (Country Forward) program. Referring to the 14 demands made by the CWC in order to support the government, and the government's response to the same, Minister Samaraweera told the Sunday Observer that the government does not consider them as demands in its true sense as they were anyway a part of their development work for the plantation sector. "Actually most of the demands made by the CWC, such as the resumption of 'peace talks' with the Tamil Tigers based on the ISGA proposals, the recruitment of Tamil teachers and policemen and the allocation of the quota of jobs to the plantation sector, were all compatible with our "Rata Perata" program for the development of the country. It was not a divergence to a new set of proposals, but only a matter of harnessing their assistance to go ahead with our development work. There is no written MoU on this. Everything is based on an understanding for the development of the country", he opined. Meanwhile, the Deputy General Secretary of the UNP and Kandy district Parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake told the Sunday Observer that the UPFA-CWC marriage was a marriage of convenience in favour of the government. Their unwritten MoU and the undertaking to grant these demands was only a bribe offered by the government to solicit CWC's support in order to secure a working majority in Parliament. |
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