'Won’t allow Anura Dissanayake to become President as long as I remain in politics’: Lohan

Kandy, July 15 (Daily Mirror)-  Minister Lohan Ratwatte said he will not allow National Peoples Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake to become the President of this country as long as he remains in politics.

"Has Anura Dissanayake constructed even a small culvert for the people? We won't allow him to become President of this country as long as I am around in politics," he said during a rally in Kandy.

"It is not worth speaking of Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa who looked at a man's hight and said he is good only for a security job," he added.

"I voted for Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament to elect him as the President with much hesitation but I will endorse him without any doubt now," he also said.