UNP to launch Island wide program against the `Satakaye sapaya

Tissa Attanayake, Gen. Secretary of the UNP addressing the Media at the UNP Media unit, said that UNP which has an exclusive and unassailable reputation unlike other parties as always having stood by the people showing overwhelming concern for them whether in power or in opposition cannot stand idle and watch this Govt. ruthlessly oppress and impose hardships on them by the hour.

To counter this, the UNP is launching a program titled the ‘Satakaye Sapaya virudhatha” on the 3rd of April commencing initially at 120 electorates to be extended Island wide.As the whole country has begun to realize that the country should be rid of this ‘Satakaye sapaya’ curse , so has the UNP , the saviour of the country and people always, has decided to start this protest campaign to pack this Govt. home lock ,stock and barrel in keeping with the people’s wishes .As people are unable to voice their protests because of the Govt.’s murderous policies and atrocities directed against the freedom of expression of the people and Media, the UNP feels that it has to agitate on behalf of and alongside them, he asserted.

This protest campaign will be on a peaceful footing starting at 10.00 a.m. at the 120 electorates from all the main Towns. This program will highlight the curse that has befallen the country with cost of living , price hikes among other things spiraling out of control for the Govt. whereby burdens and hardships are imposed on the masses by the hour, not to mention the insecurity and panic they are trapped in even unable to sleep peacefully in their own homes fearing the ‘white van’ (symbol of abduction and murder allegedly by the Govt.) or unidentified persons forcibly entering houses and committing murder and mayhem.

Since independence, this is the first time this country once described as the ‘pearl of the Orient’ has been caught in such a black curse or Satakaye Sapaya . Just in the last few years from 2004, petrol price has risen by 149%, diesel by 150%, Rice (the common man’s staple food) by 136%, Bread by 236 %, Tea by 125 % apart from the tax, electricity, water and phone tariff increases. These are but a few of the countless increases! He lamented.

This Govt. has also set a record for making the largest number of false promises at elections and honouring none, while also fomenting State corruption, tyranny, profligate expenditure of people’s money and lawlessness on a scale hitherto unknown in this country, he exhorted.Attanayake urged everyone to give their unstinted support to this program burying Party differences as no one is spared from the evil spell of this ‘Satakaye sapaya’, he concluded.