(May 04, Colombo. Sri Lana Guardian) Sri Lankans are always accustomed to grandiose promises of politicians from platforms and even ‘rooftops ’during election time. The ruling Rajapakse Govt. too made a number of promises in an attractively termed ‘Mahinda Chintana ’ at the last General elections.With the Eastern Provincial Council elections, now round the corner, once again the whole atmosphere is pregnant with promises and plans of the Govt .to save the people and develops the East.
Voters who have almost always been let down after the elections, have now got the opportunity to think and act wisely based on the past, present and future of the country.
As the present is built on the past, and the future is built on the present, it is the duty of the voters to remember the past, consider the present and act for the future .This duty can be discharged duly if they use the Democratic right to vote on the 10th of May fearlessly and freely defying intimidation, violence and undemocratic acts of the Govt. or any other.
Are you to vote for a party which makes a few promises and honours them , or vote for a party which offers a basketful of countless and grandiose promises ,which when the time comes to fulfill turn out to be rotten, only to let down the people wholesale.?
People cannot forget that in the past there have been Governments which promised to bring rice from the moon if people face a rice shortage; but, when, after election victory, people complained of food shortage to the same Govt., it duped them by stating that it is the people’s fault for not having understood that there is no rice in the moon. !
Can such a recipe of hollow promises and empty rhetoric delude the people of the East this time?
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