Courtesy Ceylon Today

In this last moment to save the country, the responsibility of all people who love the country is to ensure Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory by voting for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on 16 November, former President and current Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

The only way that the country and the people can be saved from harmful domestic and foreign forces, like the country was saved from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorism is by electing Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President, he added.

When the country has accepted that Gotabaya Rajapaksa is only a citizen of Sri Lanka, all insults against him amount to mere lamentations of regressive forces that have gone berserk in the face of defeat, he opined.

Minister Rajitha Senaratne who hurls insults using liars and men with fake beards would even attempt to level baseless allegations against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in these last few days by bringing Zahran’s wife in or bringing Zahran back from the grave, Opposition Leader Rajapaksa said, adding that Rajith Senaratne is such a person in nature.

He added, “They ruled the country for five years and could have gone to the Court against all the accusations they are levelling, the Opposition Leader claimed, adding that these sudden insults confirm their inability to accept the fact that Gotabaya Rajapaksa is on his way to a grand victory.”

He went on to say that after coming to power, Gotabaya Rajapaksa will launch a systematic investigation into the Easter Sunday attacks and take legal action against and penalise persons engaged in the attack regardless of their status.

He added that a large number of Sri Lankan expatriates who love the country and have seen the services done by Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his Government are returning to the country these days to use their votes to ensure Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory.

During my visit to the North, it was confirmed, through the responses of the people that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is becoming an invalid coin among the people of the North, the Opposition Leader Rajapaksa further said.

He went on to say that the way the people of the North detest the present Government and its leaders has become evident through the opposition expressed by them regarding the decision taken by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to back Sajith Premadasa.