Minorities have pledged support to Sajith’s presidency

Minister Premadasa has pledged to increase family income, improve quality of life,  treble exports

By Sandun A. Jayasekera 

UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa has discussed his strategy and policy of an administration established under his presidency with a number of minority party leaders and they have expressed their wholehearted support and blessings to the programme, Public Administration and Management Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara said yesterday. 

“Minister Premadasa is convinced that political leaders have no problem whatsoever in supporting his administrative programme. They have pledged to campaign for his victory at the forthcoming presidential poll. Minister Premadasa is fully-occupied in talking to leaders of Tamil and Muslim political parties as he had been tasked to garner the support of minority parties and receive their blessings for his style of governance,” he told Daily Mirror.

“Minister Premadasa has gleefully accepted the responsibility. The interaction he had with Tamil and Muslim leaders has been highly-productive. In his policy framework, he has expressed in no uncertain terms how he was going to address the North-East issue, domestic economic woes and poverty alleviation. He has pledged to increase family income, improve quality of life, enhance productivity and efficiency in the public sector, develop local industries and treble exports while restricting imports as much as possible, strengthen law and order, judicial independence, democratic establishments and the media,” he said. 

He said the UNP would this week nominate the presidential candidate who commanded the confidence of a majority of people and who had the capability and skill to emerge victorious at the forthcoming presidential poll representing the proposed Democratic National Front (DNF).   

Minister Premadasa has gleefully accepted the responsibility. The interaction he had with Tamil and Muslim leaders has been highly-productive.