Thousands of families in North and East without breadwinners

Saturday, 24 May 2014 

Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has said that 84,000 families in the North and East have become destitute without breadwinners.

Distributing livelihood assistance to 10 war widows in Kilinochchi recently, the MP has said that these families should be provided with extensive livelihood assistance ensuring their social safety to rebuild their lives steadily.

He has added that the TNA has continuously requested the government to provide adequate livelihood assistance to the war victims in the North and East, but the government is more concerned about building houses for army personnel and is focused on their welfare.

Willie takes up task of making Basil the PM!

 Saturday, 24 May 2014 

As we reported previously, economic development minister Basil Rajapaksa’s political affairs committee has undertaken the task of making him the prime minister of the next government.

To realize that task, his political affairs committee has been further strengthened with the inclusion of Laksala chairman Anil Koswatte and former general manager of Department of Railways Lalithasiri Gunaruwan.

Minister Rajapaksa has proposed to his political affairs that someone should make full-time commitment to make him the PM. However, every member of the committee have cited various reasons and evaded accepting that responsibility.

The minister has noted that someone with political connections should work permanently from the party steering office at Temple Trees. As the committee members were passing the buck, secretary to the ministry Botanical Gardens and Public Recreation of Willie Gamage has volunteered to accept that responsibility.

Accordingly, he will resign from his ministry secretary position and take up the task on a full-time basis. Minister Basil Rajapaksa has highly commended Willie Gamage for volunteering to do so, all the more because both have been bred in the same village and known to each other for more than 40 years.

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