Champika focuses on good governance at chief prelates meeting

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By Waruni Paranagamage

The Former Minister of Power and Energy and General Secretary of the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG), Patali Champika Ranawaka, yesterday stressed the need to ensure stable and good governance within the country instead of family governance, as was the case before 8 January.

Meeting with the chief prelates of the Asgiriya and Malwatte chapters, the former minister said that the political reforms that the country obtained after 8 January should continue in order to establish stable and good governance within the country. He stressed that the 8 January victory could not be allowed to diminish through a return to family rule.

“Now the country needs stable governance. We cannot go back. We should work against family governance,” former minister added.

He pointed out that the policies in President Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto that had failed would be accomplished once the UNFGG coalition achieved victory at the parliamentary election next month.

“That was the Parliament which was appointed in 2010, hence we failed to implement some of the policies that were promised in the manifesto due to several parliamentarians being unsupportive of the work of the newly-elected Government,” the Minister added.

However, Ranawaka asserted that all the parties should prepare for a new political era by having reforms and reorganising their parties to contest the upcoming election in order to strengthen the mandate which President Sirisena obtained on 8 January.

“We should also build a strong economic foundation for the country to go ahead under a united Sri Lanka. Our goal is to make an ethical and moral country,” he added.