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Video: Campaign for Rs. 100 a success- Gammanpila
Although the opposition parties complained that JHU candidate Udaya Gammanpila was begging for funds for the election campaign, Mr. Gammanpila said begging for funds was always better than robbing funds unlike some candidates.“Even Lord Buddha has gone looking for meals door to door. So what’s wrong with asking for something that I don’t have? It’s not a robbery unlike some candidates do. Even a United National Party (UNP) candidate was allegedly involved in a robbery to find funds for his election campaign,” Mr. Gammanpila said.
Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) candidate at the upcoming provincial council election Udaya Gammanpila earlier declared he was accepting Rs. 100 each from people as funds to be used at his election campaign. Mr. Gammanpila has so far collected Rs. 2.7 million as funds.
He said he could have easily found millions of rupees from his friends and well-wishers for the campaign but decided not to.
“I could have easily collected funds for the campaign from my friends. But I wanted to create a new political tradition where there aren’t any politicians controlled by businessmen. This is why I decided to ask for fewer funds from a large amount of people instead of asking for large amounts of funds from a fewer people,” he said.
Mr. Gammanpila said he also abstained from using posters and hoardings in his election campaign and using social network sites to deliver his political manifesto and messages.
“Social network sites like Facebook and Twitter are one of the best methods of campaigning at present. This is also an example of using social network sites in a good way. Users of these networks should be responsible for using them wisely,” he added. (Lahiru Pothmulla)
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