By: Isuru Parakrama
September 15, Colombo (LNW): The National Peoples Power (NPP) leader and presidential candidate MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake said certain parties place political figures of rival political ideologies on stage to match the audience of the electorate in which they hold public rallies, in a bid to collect votes.
Speaking at a rally held in Mirigama yesterday (14) evening, Dissanayake emphasised that the NPP remains as the sole political party which holds on to the same narrative of developing the country, regardless of the audience, thereby dismissing propaganda influenced by ethnic and racial differences.
Dissanayake alleged that this tactic is deliberate, in what he described as a move used by political rivals to collect votes of different ethnicities.
The NPP presidential candidate further criticised the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) for inciting racial unrest against his party by setting Sri Lanka’s cultural values as bait, in what he described as a reflection of the same racist propaganda undertaken for the victory of ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2019.
Dissanayake pointed out that there is no difference between the two approaches, suggesting that politics influenced by racial or religious tendencies must be eradicated.
He further debunked the speculation that a future NPP government will cancel religious and cultural events because it has no interest in a society in which religious and cultural values are excluded, and asserted that his party believes in equality for all.
