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A public
gathering to support the President
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s election campaign,
organised by the British Sri Lankan
Forum (BSLF) was held opposite the Sri
Lanka High Commission, London on Sunday
17th January 2010. The public gathering
was mainly focused on displaying the
gratitude towards President Rajapaksa
for giving the leadership to defeat 30
years of brutal terrorism in Sri Lanka.
A large
crowd of patriotic Sri Lankans were
gathered and it was quite energetic with
slogans supporting Mahinda Rajapaksa,
against international conspiracies,
anti-National NGOs and also criticizing
pro Tamil Tiger Terrorist elements being
shouted by the crowd. This event was
organised on very short notice and
participation was from all walks of Sri
Lankan Diaspora in the UK, was
commendable in freezing cold, resulting
in a huge success of the event.
On be half of the organizing committee,
Janaka Alahapperuma said as the
Commander of Chief, President Rajapaksa
gave the strong and correct leadership
and also remained unshaken amidst
challenges that came from Western
bullies on his way during the last phase
of the war. He further said that
everyone should wholeheartedly be
grateful for ending the Terrorism in
motherland and vote wisely to re elect
him to finish the rest of the work
towards the prosperity of the nation.
Mr
Alahapperuma also thanked Niroshan
Mohotty, Ajantha Hindurangala and
Mahinda Punchihewa for taking the
initiative to organised the event and
Dr.M.B. Ranatunga, Kalum Silva, Aravinda
Ranasinghe, Neth FM -Sri Lanka, Sesatha
and Col3neg Original web sites for
helping them to make the event a
success.
Two letters were handed over to the Sri
Lanka High Commission by representatives
of BSLF to President Rajapaksa and the
people of Sri Lanka. Furthermore, two
incidents took place, where a fake text
message circulated and also someone has
phoned Police and informed the event was
postponed. Those two attempts tried to
disrupt the programme were in vain.
Metropolitan Police provided adequate
security and is conducting
investigations to trace the phone call
and the text message in the arrests of
the culprits.
Spokesperson
of the BSLF said that their organisation
is a non political organisation. Due to
the international conspiracies and some
other forces are backing in the election
to cripple the newly found peace in Sri
Lanka and members of BSLF considered
this as a threat to the national
security and its people. Therefore BSLF
decided to hold the public gathering for
favoring President Rajapaksa, he further
added. |
