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vote-snatchers warned " We don’t recognise these padanamas (Foundations)", he told a gathering of party activists from the Maharagama electorate during a meeting at UNP headquarters, Siri Kotha on Wednesday. "The only foundation the party recognises is the common Chanda Padanama or vote base, he said in what appeared to be a reference to party organisers with Foundations to their names making inroads for the preference vote in constituencies other than those given to them. Mr. Wickremesinghe said the Maharagama constituency in particular was like a jar of cashew nuts which everyone dipped his hands into, with the result that Maharagama itself was deprived of representation in Parliament. He said the Maharagama voters should not permit this to happen and also said that if those who put their hands into this jar with promises of jobs in a future UNP Government, that would not be the case. The UNP Presidential candidate said that the rising cost of living, political uncertainty and the fragile security situation required a change in the political leadership in the country. UNP
Maharagama organiser Irvin Weerackody also referred to the "auctioning
of votes " in his division, and called it a "plague."
He said there was little one could do about this other than to appeal
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