Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Gota to take stern action on drug dealers, murderers, criminals

- BY SANDUN A JAYASEKERA

The Gota - Baya (fear of Gota) among all wrong doers, murderers, bribe takers and drug dealers was understand­able because he was to launch a special campaign against those criminals on assuming Presidency after November 16, Spokesman of the SLPP, Dulles Alahapperu­ma said yesterday.

We are not worried about Tamil and Muslim votes as all big guns in the Muslim community are with us

Responding to Daily Mirror at the first ever SLFP – SLPP joint Press briefing held at Rajagiriya last morning, former Minister Alahapperu­ma added that the underworld characters imported by the government, drug kingpins, those who misappropr­iate public money and murderers and bribe takers must find a place to hide when Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins the Presidenti­al poll.“yes, they must really get worried and feared when Gota wins,” Mr. Alahapperu­ma stressed. Mr. Alahapperu­ma said the two reports released by the Presidenti­al Commission that probed corruption­s and misdeeds of the current government has serious strictures and admonishme­nts on the National Housing Developmen­t Authority (NHDA) and has recommende­d legal action for alleged misappropr­iation of state funds.

He challenged the UNP to tell President Maithripal­a Sirisena to release the commission report if it was so clean as claimed by the party’s candidate.

“We are not worried about Tamil and Muslim votes as all big guns in the Muslim community are with us. In 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa polled 75,000 votes from the North alone even though he lost the election.you can have a fair calculatio­n of the island wide vote base expected for Gotabaya Rajapaksa when you assess the voting pattern at the local government polls in February, 2015. I can safely predict that he would obtain nearly 60% of all votes polled,” Mr. Alahapperu­ma emphasised.

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