Sajith gifts house to athlete Rajitha Asanka

Housing, Construction and Cultural Affairs Minister Sajith Premadasa donated a house built at Moratuwa using public funds to athlete Rajitha Asanka, who has won a number of international sports medals while having a hearing impairment.

Addressing the public at the housewarming ceremony, Minister Premadasa went onto say that leaders of the Rajapaksa regime made houses for their kith and kin, the UNF government would build houses from public money only for the needy public, he said.

Minister Premadasa said the very first act of the 51 day illegal government of Mahinda Rajapaksa was to abolish the ‘Udagama Programme’ that has been launched to give a roof above their heads to all Sri Lankans who are living without a decent abode.

“I will show you before long the document that abolished my programme to provide free houses to the needy people. By today, 331,000 families have benefited from the Udagama Programme. I fulfill my ambition to give a house to each and every family in Sri Lanka by 2025. It is a pledge to you from me. After 2020, there will be no houseless people in this country whether they are Tamil, Muslim or of any other community,” Minister. Premadasa stressed.

Do they think they can win elections only by creating racial disharmony, ethnic mistrust and religious tension among Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese? If this is their main political strategy to win forthcoming elections they are mistaken.the UNF government has decided to put in place a massive development programme before 2020 that includes a huge housing project together with a employment drive in all nine provinces in the country to win the hearts of all communities in the entire country,” Minister Premadasa said.

Minister Premadasa questioned whether the problem for the JO leaders was that he does not get commissions when housing projects are carried out like those of the JO and added the people were still aware how politicians under the Rajapaksa regime took comw missions in dollars, Yuan and Euros in the guise of housing and development projects.