Nominees for General elections 2020

In a couple of months General Elections will be held to elect parliamentarians to govern the country for the next five years.

Readers will recall the present President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa repeatedly pledged at the Presidential Elections, he would nominate educated, honest men and certainly not those who have committed fraud and other crimes; also, those candidates defeated at polls will not be taken in on the National List. To keep up to this pledge his own the Sri Lanka Podujana Party [SLPP] should nominate such people. He cannot expect other parties such as the UNP, JVP, JHU to fall in line.

Whether the leader of his own party Mahinda Rajapaksa, fulfils the pledge of President Gotabhaya is a matter we have to wait and watch? I believe, as the President, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, should be the leader of the SLPP as was claimed by former President Maithripala Sirisena, to be the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, to have a free hand in managing the party in accordance with his wishes. President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, should be excused for appointing the present Cabinet Ministers and State Ministers who have allegations against them to have committed various crimes as the present members are those elected at the last General Elections in 2019 and he has no say.

So far, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is doing great, but can he maintain that trend, if there are interferences from his own party on the selection of nominees, for the General Elections.

LALITH RAJAKARUNA BORALESGAMUWA