The Opposition which had no clear policy or programme had always tried to deceive the masses through some hoax. The Opposition parties which bandied the electric chair hoax during the last election was now talking of a non-existent Ghost Constitution to deceive the masses and win votes Highways Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development Minister Kabir Hashim said.
The minister said the Opposition parties which governed the country for the last 20 yeas aggravated country’s problems rather than finding solutions to them. Now they were up to the same game of deceiving the masses once again.
The minister expressed these sentiments speaking to the media after attending a function held in Pilimathalawa Kandy on January 26. Minister Hashim said the people who took over government reins through the back door had to move away along the same route they came in. It was the present Government which eradicated Mahinda Rajapaksa’s fear of the electric chair and enabled him to visit any country of his choice without any trepidation.
He said the government had not still formulated any new Constitution what had been tabled in parliament were a set of proposals made by a panel of experts and others for discussion by parliamentarians as members of the Constitutional Council. The UNP had categorically stated that it would only support and condone a constitution which ensured the pre-eminent position given to Buddhism by article nine of the present Constitution.
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