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Choose a friend, President tells Northern voters
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday urged the people of the North to make the right choice at the forthcoming elections to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC). “Re watunu wale dawal wattenna epa. (Do not fall into the same trap you already fell into before). You have been misled and kept blindfolded by certain forces and they are still trying to do the same”, the President told a public rally in Kilinochchi. The rally was the first before the proposed NPC elections in September.
In a speech, a large portion of which as delivered in Tamil, the President quoted from a well-known Sinhalese saying which says that a friend who is close is better than the relative who is far (Dura inna nayata wadiya laga inna yaluwa hondai). The President kicked off his trip to the North by declaring open the Iranamadu domestic airport, a housing scheme in Mullaitivu housing scheme and sections of the A9 route which was newly constructed.
A large crowd gathered near the newly-opened People’s Bank in Kilinochchi to listen to the President. Mr. Rajapaksa said that when the new NPC was installed the government hoped to undertake bigger projects for the development of the North.
“We are giving the people of the North the same that are given to the South,” he said, adding that the people should make a decision that was good for the future of their children.
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