People endorse UPFA policies - PM

With the resounding victory of the ruling UPFA at the parliamentary polls, the people have endorsed its policies, Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka told the Sunday Observer.

He said that the people have reposed confidence in President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

“People have accepted the Government’s vision. People have understood that the country can only prosper under the UPFA Government which ended 30 years of terrorism”, he said.

The premier said that the Government’s future vision was to develop all spheres including agriculture, education, social, industrial and other sectors where the development programs were implemented. “With the development of these sectors, the country will soon become self-sufficient and the foreign exchange saved will be used to develop the villages as well as urban areas”, he said.

He said that people should feel and enjoy the development and then they would contribute their mite for the country’s development, “No Government can achieve success alone and it needs the co-operation of people in its journey towards development.

We feel that the support of those who genuinely supported us as well as those who opposed us is vital in this journey. Both can play a vital role in developing the country and its people”, he said.

Prime Minister Wickramanayaka while thanking those who reposed confidence in the UPFA and President Rajapaksa and helped hold a peaceful election called upon all to shed differences and join hands to embark on a common goal to achieve the Government’s development targets.

He said that people who have confidence in the Government’s future goals had chosen some dynamic young politicians such as Namal Rajapaksa to represent them in the new Parliament.

“People have chosen some new politicians to speak on their behalf and this is a good sign,” he said adding that the Government will abolish the preferential voting system once they get the two-third majority in Parliament.

(SS)