NPP to launch struggle from June 8 to obtain LG polls: AKD

By Ajith Siriwardana

The National People’s Power (NPP) would re-launch the battle from June 8 to force the government to hold the Local Government election, as June 9 completes three months since the LG polls have been delayed, NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.

Addressing a rally in Balapitiya over the weekend, he said all the NPP candidates who were contesting the LG polls would come before the Elections Commission and demand the election.

Dissanayake said they then would organise protest campaigns in Gampaha, Hambantota and Anuradhapura and finally they would launch a massive people’s struggle to surround Colombo.

“These rulers have inflicted grave destruction to the country and its people. The recently issued Central Bank report shows that 68 per cent of the population have either reduced the amount of food intake or reduced the number of meals. It also shows that 40 per cent of the patients have stopped taking medicine. 40 per cent have cut down on educational expenses. 500,000 people who were employed in regular employment have lost their jobs. Some 100,400 unskilled labourers left the country last year. The majority of the working force are trying to leave the country,” he said.

He said the NPP was struggling to convert this country into a suitable country where people can live and added that the NPP was ready to take up the challenge.