REFUGEE

By Gandhya Senanayake

If General Sarath Fonseka is elected as the President he will behave like a dictator and no one will be able to speak out against him or his misdoings and so he will not have the vote of the minorities especially the Tamils, the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said.

The CWC media unit qouted Estate Infrastructure Deputy Minister and Ceylon Workers Congress leader Muthu Sivalingam as saying that General Fonseka, who had claimed credit for the army victory over the LTTE, had no political experience to run for the presidency.

Minister Sivalingam had further noted that the minority could not vote for the General because if they did so they could not voice their needs and fulfill their objectives and goals.

MP Basil Rajapakse who had attended the rally meanwhile had said that the Nuwara Eliya workers could now move freely without being arrested under suspicion unlike earlier times because of the present government and because of the President.

He had pointed out that the last time president spoke in the area there had been poor attendance, but that there had been a greater number this time, proving that the president’s popularity in the region was on the increase.

“This was not a SLFP voter base in the 2005 elections, but having Mr. Thondaman support our party has helped assures these people we have their best interests in mind.”

“Mr. Thondaman was sent to India to bring a Tamil Nadu delegation to visit the IDP camps. This was the first time that a party from that Tamil Nadu visited the camps and that it was headed by the daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidi himself he added”.

He had gone on to say that this was his first presidential rally and this was the first speech he was making on behalf of the President, sources in at the meeting conferred.