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It is due to the collective policy that we have evolved over the years, that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake could outline the government policy statement without even referring to a single piece of a paper, “Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya told Parliament yesterday.
This is not something we did overnight. We presented a consistent policy that has been built over a period of time,” She said.
The Prime Minister said this while commencing the Parliamentary debate on the government’s policy statement.
This is a Parliament that represents a historic mandate. The people have rejected the traditional elite political system and they have emphasised the need for a new political culture. We must understand this message properly.
For a long time, the governance of our country had deteriorated severely. Through this, power was misused. Corruption has increased. The people have strongly rejected such a corrupt political culture.
The leaders of traditional political parties have been rejected by the people with disgust. She also said that what the people are rejecting is not politics but a political culture that abuses power.
She stated that the government will take all possible measures to defeat attempts by various groups to incite racism for their own narrow political gains.
She told Parliament that the mandate received by the government has given a clear message that the people reject racism. We are not ready to accept the programme that is being carried out to divide people for their own political interests.
IRANGIKA RANGE
