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The priorities of the Nation

The priorities of the Nation have to be set in place to appease the voters of the heartland who will carry the Victors into Parliament and they cannot be power hungry, selfishly motivated seekers of personal acclaim. Already accusations are being levelled at both leading parties the UNP and the PA that they indeed are all of this projecting a more arduous road to success for either of them where the minds of the people exercising Universal Franchise need to be convinced beyond a doubt which party will be mandated into Parliament as the Ruling Party by virtue of their credentials.

While the UNP has chosen a path of conglomerating pro business strategies welcoming a positive response from the Private Sector and liberalising an open market concept intended to attract foreign investment, the man on the street at grass roots level may not necessarily interpret them as being beneficial to the Nation in a wider sense of equality to all citizens. Furthermore the defections of former PA Ministers most of whom cannot boast of unblemished track record in as far as their materialistic motivations were concerned. Their joining of hands with the UNP appears to be a dive towards a security blanket protecting them from fradulent transactions and being brough to justice which in reality has not done the credibility of the UNP much good as their intentions to bring down the Government has also been motivated by a visible greed for power at a time when the Alliance between the PA and the JVP seemed poised to take off on a positive note towards the restoration of the Nation in areas of primary importance such as the Economy and the terrorist problem.

The JVP on the contrary have steadfastly strengthened their claim to be the true liberators of Sri Lanka's masses and the heartland voters have embraced them as a heaven sent entity whose love of the Nation is unquestionable and being Marxist certainly no sin combined with a cast iron discipline towards priorities such as unnecessary privatisation, incentives for job market expansion for the impoverished, the streamlining of the Administrative Infrastructure and unshakably convinced that there will be no dealings with terrorists logically conceived in conjunction with the World Alliance Against Terrorism when bothe the UNP and the PA still maintain a rather weak kneed stand of hesitancy in favour of negotiations rather than elimination through Military Strikes.

The Nation is also looking towards the Politicians' safety and well being while on the rigorous campaign trail as their vulnerabilities should be of prime concern to the Law Enforcement Authorities who must never forget who the real enemies of the State are, those terror groups who lie in wait in the dark recesses of their own misery for an opportunity to explode into terror and destruction making unsuspecting targets out of innocents. The Politicians who recognize who the real enemies of the State are, with no attempts to appease them nor collaborate with them for personal gain and have no compunctions in recognizing them are already on the way to victory to a structured environment which will never again see the horrors of protracted terror and should be given the blanket of security and support at the ballot box which would assert their protection as theirs would be the destiny to hold the Nation together.

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