Leader of the Democratic Party, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka noted that when visiting Kataragama back in the day, you might recall that during the journey you witness the innocent people who are on either side of road who sell pots and other sweets and vegetables: but now you see nothing like that and there are only concrete roads and no one knows what happened to those people, noted Field Marshal Fonseka

He added that even vehicles travel on those roads very rarely and you might be able to witness a monkey cross the road so it can be seen that there is no profit made by the shops located close to the port and the airport and unless you are deceived – by the bottle of arrack, the saree, the bottle of ethanol, the mobile phone or the bicycle by the politician, they will not respect you. Therefore you must decide to vote for a more civilized politician no matter to what party he belongs to.

Deputy Leader of the UNP, Sajith Premadasa said:

We will bring before the law all those who were involved in the theft of lands in the past. All those persons who were involved in stealing state land from this district over the years will be held accountable and if there is anyone who was forced away from his farmlands and those lands were later transferred to the henchmen, the land transfers and deeds will be made void and the lands will be returned to the original owner.  I wish to reiterate that.

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