Multimillion dollar Avurudu gifts for Hambantota
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, April 13, 2014
President works out plans for private power plants and other huge projects to make the southern district a mode While one district prospers, another province is left to die from kidney disease epidemic while more committees make more proposals After the New Year honeymoon, Rajapaksa regime will face Geneva and other crisis-management issues
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open a Bird Research Centre in Hambantota last month. Photo: Sudath Silva, Presidential Secretariat
As another National New Year dawns, the movers and shakers of the UPFA Government will be heading south. Ministers, military top brass, senior bureaucrats, commoners and family members will be there to greet President Mahinda Rajapaksa at his ancestral home in Meda Mulana, just 32 kilometres from Tangalle. The area, like other parts of the Hambantota District, is all Rajapaksa heartland. That no doubt is reason for this region receiving high priority in development activity.
This is notwithstanding the UPFA’s drop in voter support at last month’s Southern Provincial Council (SPC) elections. The ruling party’s vote reduced to 57.42 per cent from the 2009 polls where it stood at 66.95 per cent. Yet, there is a remarkable difference in the festivities this time.
