UPFA Kurunegala district candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa received the blessings of the Sacred Tooth Relic today.

Central province chief minister Sarath Ekanayake and other candidates of the UPFA were presesnt at the event.

Later Mahinda Rajapaksa called on the chief prelate of the Malwatu chapter of the Siam sect most venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Thera.

Mahinda Rajapaksa said that they even question deeds done with a good heart and close to 500 government employees, from the top most level, to the lowest from the presidential secretariat and below have been interrogated for a number of reasons.

He also said that it is unfair to do this to government employees and stated that “putting a stop to this is our intention”

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