Do not sit in the mansions and devise strategies to defeat SJB. confront the people and evaluate your mandate. Sajith contests the Government (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the opposition leader, delivered the following speech to the Samagi Janabalawega conference today.

I’d like to express my appreciation and gratitude to all of you for contributing to the strength of this political force that is being formed to build a righteous country and society. Friends, you are the leaders of a massive public movement to free the country from the corrupt, fraudsters, cheaters, and robbers who have bankrupted it. You gave it power. I’d like to remind you that when the law was suddenly repealed, emergency regulations were declared, curfews were imposed, and we were forbidden to travel on the highway. all of those were violated against that dictatorial government, and members of Samagi Jana Balawega and Samagi Jana Sandanha took to the highway. Also, in November 2020, as everyone recalls, we took to the streets with the common people, leading the way with all of you.

I’d like to remind you that Samagi Jana Balwegaya was the first and only people’s force to visit the presidential secretariat in 2021. Furthermore, the Gota Go Home March began in Kandy, and a massive May Day demonstration was held. Honestly, Gota, Mahinda, and Basil Rajapaksa,  go home the  architects of that great revolution are Samagi Jana Balavega’s beloved mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. That makes me happy.

Thoughtful friends, particularly our party, registered quickly and faced a general election within a few months, and we won a historic victory. In the 2020 General Election in August.  Samagi Jana Balawega  we achieved a victory that no political party in this country has ever achieved in the history of democracy. More than 27 lakh votes, 54 members of parliament. We are overjoyed and proud to have received 23.9 percent of the vote.

Dear friends, the groups known as Unut Ekai, Munut Ekai, and Unut Ekai are currently engaged in a massive conspiracy to destroy the united people’s force. Especially now, when the four reactionary forces are conspiring against the united people’s force, I would like to declare that Ranasinghe Premadasa’s son Sajith Pemadasa will not allow anyone to touch Samagi Jana Balawega as long as I am alive.

I challenge those cowards, my friends. If at all possible, destroy Samagi Jana Balavegaya. If at all possible, defeat the Samagi Jana balavegaya. Not sitting in mansions is not the best place for that.  Follow the path. Get on the road, put your feet on the ground, and if possible, unite with the people of the country to defeat the united people’s force. They are unable. They are liars.  At this time, I declare that Samagi Jana Balavega is the populist and progressive force that can stand with the people of this country.

Dear friends, I call upon these reactionary forces at this moment not to be shy. Don’t be a coward. What is the best litmus test to know one’s size in the democratic system? We need an election. Do you want it? Do you want it? We want an election. We are ready to face an election. Those of you who operate in the mansion conspiracies in the air-conditioned rooms, if possible, work to destroy the Samagi Jana balavegaya in an election. At this time, I declare that our group of MPs of Samagi Jana Balavega is ready to accept that challenge.

Dear friends, our party is not a party limited to a gang, a family line, a family name, an individual, a name, or a group of cronies. There is no ego in our party, we have our own feeling. Unity, brotherhood, working as a team, I would like to proudly say that our united people’s force is the most capable, humble, energetic, disciplined, fair-minded, corruption-free, fraud-free and theft-free team that can recover the country, develop the country. We are on our way. Our vision Our thinking.

What is this program, that program is Sri Lanka first. Bring Sri Lanka to the first place in the world. Especially at this time, in the journey to bring the country to the first place in the world, our party rejects extremism. There is no racialism, caste, caste, class or tribalism in us. We are a party moving forward with brotherhood. Extremist capitalism that has been operating as usual in this country is rejected. We reject extremist socialism. We follow the middle path.

In the middle way, social market forces cantered on wealth creation, social democracy cantered on humanistic capitalism, and equitable distribution of resources and income to every population in the country. That is our philosophy. Our thinking, our program. We will rebuild this country where the Rajapaksa junta the Rajapakse family gang destroyed.

What are our solutions? Providing sustainable solutions to extreme poverty in our country. Instead of temporary plaster solutions. This is because at this moment, country suffers from income poverty consumption poverty, and investment poverty, unemployment is increasing due to inflation, and this country is living with a burden that cannot be stomached by a large segment of the population. The current government does not have a proper program.

Mr. Ranasinghe Premadasa took over the fire that was burning from both sides and recovered the country by developing the country. After developing the country and strengthening the country, targeted programs such as Janasavya, programs to get rid of poverty with time targets were implemented as objective targets and time targets.

We need to continue these through the development program. We need to protect the small and medium scale industrialists whose livelihood is based on 45 lakhs of people in this country. We need to protect the country. What the current government is doing is to shrink the economy, make the economy smaller, suppress people’s lives, increase the price of goods, increase the electricity bill, increase the water bill, and bring the strong living community to a small level. We strongly reject that.

So at this time I would like to tell you all it is not a solution to the country’s problems. Some think of free market extreme capitalism today and these market forces can solve all the problems of the country. That’s not possible. Government intervention is necessary. Government contribution is required. The state needs strength. We are ready to move forward in the mixed economic system in such a mixed program. Our solution is an export-oriented development economy.Tourism industry, an export industry, export industry sector We are implementing export promotion in IT sector. Just as Ranasinghe Premadasa brought the garment revolution, today we need to bring the electronic revolution. We want to bring our software revolution. We need to bring the IT revolution. Agriculture should be empowered by modern technology.

We need to implement a free trade concept somewhat similar to the free education implemented by Mr.C.W.W Kannangara. We want to eliminate queues in the health sector.  We need to develop the fishing sector. Strengthening the Exclusive Economic Zone. We need to create a green economy. Renewable energy should be brought forward. We need to modernize the transport system and the road system.

Friends, the basic rights of this country are not only political civil rights, but economic, social, religious and cultural rights are made the basic rights of the people of this country. Undoubtedly, loss-making government institutions need to be restructured and reformed.

That’s true. It has to be done. But we don’t do that by grabbing the employees by the neck and throwing them out. We hope to turn loss-making government institutions into profit-making institutions through public private partnership through joint projects through joint pensions program by protecting employee rights. Also, we need to develop foreign direct investment. For that, we need to go to a higher level in the e-soft doing business index. Also, the good governance index should go up.

Friends, you all know that the society is talking about the story of Unut Eka and Munut Eka. But remember that Ununut and Munut are one and the same. I would like to say at this point that we are different.

Samagi Jana Balavega is different. I would like to tell you what role we played as an opposition in this bankrupt country. Through the Sakwala Information Technology Program, we have given 178 lakhs one hundred and seventy-eight lakhs worth of blackboards, computers and printers to 22 schools in this country. We have given 1602 lakhs 160.2 mn of hospital equipment and drugs to 53 government hospitals. In this country, to the state schools donated 199.2 million worth buses to forty two schools in this country. I would like to state at this time that in the history of 74 years of democratic politics in this country, no opposition has done such a revolutionary development without the power of the people of the country.

Therefore, dear friends, we are working to distribute the maximum power in a state in an undivided and unbroken sovereign state in a united Sri Lanka in one country for the ethnic problem. And especially, a youth-centered government makes the youth a power in decision-making, an opportunity to participate, and a driving force in decision-making.

We are implementing specific economic, social and political programs to protect the fifty-two percent female generation in this country, which is being crushed at every moment. Also, we are committed to work to secure the children of this country. I would like to say at this time that we are including the fundamental rights chapter in the constitution to protect all the rights of youth, women and children in these three areas.

And especially at this time, we should work to protect human rights. There should be freedom of speech in this country. There should be the opportunity to think freely in this country. There should be freedom of politics. There should be freedom of movement on the highway. I would like to tell this government that we are not ready to take permission from this stupid government to exercise our political rights on the highway. For whatever reason, when we take to the road with you and the people of the country in the future, I declare at this time that we will not take permission from this terrible government and take to the road.

And friends, we will definitely withdraw the Prevention of Terrorism Act. But we are bringing new decrees that strengthen national security. I would like to say at this time that justice will be done to the families of Eknaligoda and Lasantha Wickramatunga in our government. Today some liberals have forgotten Lasantha Wickramatunga. Ekneligoda is forgotten. It is because of the low political culture called tilting towards the benefits.

Also, we are definitely implementing a strong program to prevent corruption. Everyone who stole from this country, looted from this country and destroyed this country without political interference, bring them to court regardless of arguments and bring back the stolen money, stolen dollars, stolen Euros, stolen pounds, all these once again will be made to own by the 220 lakhs.

Dear friends, for that purpose, we are working very closely with the United Nations Organization to implement the work. And just as law and order is being established in this country, today the drug epidemic has spread throughout the country. Take the school system itself. We will certainly give the highest possible punishment not only to the kids but also to the bosses who operate the drug culture in this country. Law and order as well as justice and equity as well as anti-corruption programs, we pledge to implement all these in our future government under the leadership of Mr. Sarath Fonseka.

So dear friends, finally our vision is a knowledge based economy. We are going to implement an education system suitable for the international labor market, focusing on the fields of esteem education, science technology, English, engineering, maths, management science and medicine. We are going to implement a revolutionary change in the field of education. Big data blog change, machine learning, virtual reality as well as biotechnology and artificial intelligent are expected to be implemented in our country and turn our country into a technology-based hub.

Friends, the people’s struggle is still valid today. There are a large number of young people in this country who have been imprisoned because of public struggles. We are not only standing for them. In particular, we are working to take the people’s struggle forward. Created pressure and implement it in the massive revolution to recover this country. Some say that the state sector of fifteen hundred thousand are not good for the country.

A burden to the country. Destruction of the country. The destruction force of Rajapakse family is trying to create a clash between the 220 lakh and 100 lakh workforce of  the country. They are trying to say that it was destroyed because of government employees, which is wrong. Public service is an asset to us. We need to protect the public service. And a public service needs to change. The public service should be reformed. It should be modernized. We have to work to create a public service that is up to date.

Finally, I would like to say that the philosopher Plato said something like this. ” You are looking for the best shoemaker to fix your broken shoe. You look for the best doctor to take medicine when you are sick. But for the highest of all arts, the art of governance, you choose an incompetent, cunning bunch. “Friends, following the important advice of the philosopher called Plato, we suggest that we appoint a group of talented party members who are not cunning, who have intelligence and knowledge to serve the people who are building the country, who have a great desire to serve the people who are building the country. I would like to tell you that the only solution for the country, the only option for the country, is the United People’s Force.

Dear friends, the time has come for all of you to come together. Prepare together. In our country, the people who lived in nine  provinces , in 25 districts, in 341 secretarial  regions, in 14022 village officials’ domains, in 51000 small villages, will have the opportunity to give motivation to the team that will build the country in an election and get the state power of the country through that program. With this conference of ours, all of you should join hands with your respective organizers and get ready. The winning wave of the united people’s power that builds the country, the winning wave of the local government, all of you come together to create let all win.

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