Former President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Chairman Maithripala Sirisena says that the time has come to resurrect the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and revive it under a betel leaf mark with a new set of policies.
Under his leadership, the SLFP leaders and other allied party leaders who met online on the 15th took a number of important decisions to rebuild the party.
It is up to the will of all to formulate a new policy statement for the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and to strengthen the UPFA party to suit today.
Mr. Maithripala Sirisena has said that in the future, political decisions should be taken with a better understanding of the global epidemic and the serious economic crisis facing the country.
Leader of the People’s United Front, Minister of Education Dinesh Gunawardena has said that the proposals of the leaders of the other partner parties are also very important and that the path of the UPFA should be decided by involving all of them in the future.
The proposal made by SLFP Vice President Thilanga Sumathipala to the Executive Committee was unanimously accepted by all members of the Executive Committee on the creation of a new Manifesto consisting of social, cultural and new economic policies to build the country.
It has been decided to receive the proposals of the SLFP as well as the proposals of other political parties within the next two weeks.
Mr. Thilanga Sumathipala has stated that in the face of the global Covid-19 epidemic, it is not appropriate to rule the country on the basis of outdated policies, and the time has come to create a pro-Western, indigenous policy statement that can build the country nationally and internationally, in a people-friendly manner, and the United People’s Freedom Alliance is the possible political alliance to organize and gain the leadership of the fraternal parties.
At the beginning of the meeting, all those who were present also expressed their condolences in memory of the former leader of the Sri Lanka Workers Congress Arugam Thondaman, former minister Mangala Samaraweera and P. M. Podiappuhamy of the Deshavimukthi Janatha Party.