(Lanka-e-News - 24.July.2015, 8.30PM) The manifesto of all the groups contesting under the symbol of elephant of the UNP was released yesterday at Vihara Maha Devi park .This manifesto ‘Five pronged program to build a new country within 60 days’ spells out the policies aimed at building the country within 60 days .
This manifesto states ‘ all the political parties, forces and organizations that came forward on people’s behalf at the 2015 presidential elections to rescue the country and the people ,are now under the UNP asking for a mandate of the people to unitedly establish a stable government in parliament. Accordingly, we are releasing our five pronged program manifesto designed to build a new country within 60 days.’
This manifesto that is contained in 26 pages , at its end has Ranil Wickremesinghe’s message which is as follows :
The system of government we hereby envisage must be one that is acceptable to all. It is our view that it is most befitting at this stage to take into account what Lord Buddha had stated in relation to a State administration.
During the period of Lord Buddha ,Nepal Terai zone , and river bank of Ganga were ruled by the Lichchavi King lineage .This can be regarded as an ancient kingdom which administered the State through dialogue and consensus.Some of the policies of this Kingdom incorporated the disciplinary laws of the Sangha members.
Lord Buddha stated , during the reign of Wajjin rulers their prosperity and consistency were due to State administration via dialogue and consensus. This truth is still tenable and valid.
Speaking on the occasion , Ranil Wickremesinghe said , it is his desire not to build palaces ,rather make the house , the property on which the house is of every citizen and , the paddy field of every farmer a palace and a kingdom ; not to create royal families, but rather to make every family royal.
According to what Lord Buddha preached , the Lijjavi system of governance is necessary to be implemented in the 21 st century Sri Lankan administration . The capitalist and socialist competitive trade economy supported by experience on the one side , and an eco society that is a bastion protecting the social rights of the people on the other must be created , the Prime Minister asserted.
Without one political party alone participating in the development , and by eliminating the term , ‘ Game henchaiya’ (village henchman), village development with the participation of all is important, he went on to emphasize.
Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera the convenor of national movement for just society , general secretary of UNP and ex minister Kabeer Hashim ,JHU general secretary and ex minister Patalie Champika Ranawake, Rajitha Senaratne ex minister , SLMC leader and ex minister Rauff Hakeem ,DNF leader Western provincial council member Mano Ganeshan among others participated in this event .
The English version of the manifesto has still not been received by us. No sooner it is received than we shall publish it.
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