COLOMBO: UNP vowed to form a government immediately after the National New Year and said the return of Gampaha district MP Edward Gunasekara to the fold was just one in a series of democratic moves by the UNP to topple the ruling alliance.UNP Galle district MP Vajira Abeywardena made this prediction at a UNP rally chaired by party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in Grandpass on Wednesday.
Addressing the party supporters Opposition UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said as the UNP leader he would do his best to block government moves to make Parliament redundant through dictatorship.
“We will get on to the streets against this move,” he said.
Mr. Wickremesinghe said he would not allow the “Rajapaksa brothers” to take over Parliament undermining the country’s democracy. “Parliament is not a private company, it belongs to the people and the UNP will do its best to maintain that status,” he said.
While claiming that the government is engaged in a propaganda war Mr. Wickremesinghe said it was the UNP which liberated the East from the LTTE. He said the then government was able to take over Vakarai within hours sacrificing only one soldier whereas the present defence secretary had taken four months to do it sacrificing 400 security personnel.
He also accused high officials in the government of earning commissions by purchasing old aircraft from Ukraine.
UNP chairman Rukman Senanayake, Secretary Tissa Attanayake, National Organizer S.B. Dissanayake, Colombo District parliamentarians Mohamed Maharoof, Ravi Karunanayake and several others attended the rally.
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