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APPUHAMY - B. Beloved husband oflate B. Gunamali, father of A. Wijesinghe(Retd. Asst. Gen. Manager, Peoples’Bank), A. Somawathie (Retd. MahaweliAuthority), A. Leelawathie (Registrar,Marriage, Birth & Death), late OICRanbanda (Police Dept.), Tikiri Bandara(Japan), A. Bandara (President, Peoples’Bank Employees Union, C.B.S.U. Union,Peoples’ Bank), Dr. A. Siriwardena(Gambirigaswewa Govt. Hospital), A.Mutumenike (Sri JayawardenapuraUniversity), A. Kumarasinghe (Japan)and A. Premasinghe (Aitken Spence,Printing Dept.), father-in-law of Mahila(Retd. Peoples’ Bank), Sumanasiri (Retd.Mahaweli Authority), YasapalaAlgewatta (Retd. Asst. CommissionerSamurdhi, Anuradhapura), Chandra-latha (Staff Nurse Kurunegala Govt.Hospital), Atsuko (Japan), GeethaSwarnamali (Asst. Principal, SirimavoBandaranaike Vidyalaya, Colombo),Harshani (D. S. Senanayake, Vidyalaya,Anuradhapura), Somasiri (Oxfsam,Australia), Nilanthi & Chandrani (UpaliConsumer Products), expired. Funeralwill be take place at 5 p.m. on 15thMonday at Gonamariyawa GeneralCemetery, Gonamariyawa,Kebitigollewa.

Anumber of religious and social activities and blood donation cam-paigns were conducted to Mark the 27 anniversary of the disappear-ance of Upali Wijewardene, the Founder Chairman of the Upali Group

on Saturday (13). A Bodhi Pooja was held at the Kelani Raja Maha Viharayaon Saturday evening, attended by Mr. Nimal Welgama, Managing Director,Upali Group of Companies and Mrs. Lakmani Welgama, Chairperson, UpaliNewspapers Ltd.

Pix by Nihal Chandrakumara, Jude Denzil Pathiraja and NimalDayaratne

Upali Founderremembered

Six people have been detained and thepolice are hunting for more suspects, asenior police official told The Island.

He said three police personnel wereinjured during the clashes with JVPers.

Opposition activists held protests atAluthkade, Galle, Matara and AmparaLast week, demanding the release ofFonseka, now held by the military policeon conspiracy charges.

10 in Nuwara Eliya, 13 in Galle, 11 inMatara, 10 in Hambantota, 12 in Jaffna, 9in Vavuniya, 8 in Batticaloa, 10 inDigamadulla, 7 in Trincmalee, 18 inKurunegala, 11 in Puttalam, 12 inAnuradhapura, 8 in Polonnaruwa, 11 inBadulla, 8 in Moneragala, 13 in Ratnapuraand 12 in Kegalle.

Asked whether the breakaway LTTEfaction, TMVP would contest the polls onthe UPFA ticket, Premjayantha expressedconfidence that even if Eastern Province

Chief Minister SivanasathuraiChandrakanthan contested on its own, hewould extend his support to the govern-ment in Parliament. He said that theywould adopt a different strategy in theNorthern and Eastern Provinces.

Former JVP heavyweight NandanaGunatilleke would contest on the UPFAticket from the Kalutara district, he said.Minister Premjayantha acknowledged thatKalutara would be perhaps the toughestelectoral district to contest due to many

top seasoned campaigners being in thefray.

Among the candidates vying for theKalutara district represented by 10 mem-bers, are Kumar Welgama, RohithaAbeygunawardena, Messrs MahindaSamarasinghe, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne,Nirmala Kotelawala, NandanaGunatilleke, Jayantha Samaraweera andthe Prime Minister’s son, ViduraWickremanayake. UPFA sources said thatthey could comfortably win the district tosecure six seats.

He said that his party would request the ElectionCommissioner to introduce new security measuresat the poll counting centres for the next GeneralElection. “The Government talks of a two thirdmajority in the next election. This will remain a dis-tant dream. They would not even get a simple major-ity,” he said.

Referringto All IndiaAnnaDravidaMunnetraKazhagamgeneral sec-retaryJayalalitha’sdescriptionof his stand that theElection Commissionshould abide by the dic-tates of the ruling party as“anti-democratic,” the ChiefMinister said she hadissued a statement as ifthe people of the State hadforgotten the instances of‘gherao’ of the then ChiefElection CommissionerT.N. Seshan and attack ona private hotel where hehad stayed (in 1994).

(The Hindu)

of Asgiriya Udugama Sri Buddharakhitha, mostVen. Mahanayaka of Amarapura MahanayakaDavuldena Gnanissara and most. Ven. Mahanayaykaof Ramagna Mahanayaka WeweldeniyeMedhalankara.

The Mahanayaka Theros have said that they wereintervening in the Sarath Fonseka affair in keepingwith the tradition that the Maha Sangha of the ancienttimes followed as regards disputes between the coun-try’s rulers and others.

The Mahanayaka Theros have cited as exampleof intervention of the Maha Sangha in a disputebetween King Dutugemunu and his brother Tissa.

Similarly Ven. Weliwita Asarana SaranaSaranangkara, Wariyapola Sri Sumangala andMigettuwatta Sri Sumangala Theros came forward attimes of national crisis according to recorded history.

Similarly, the Sangha had felt the need to comeforward at this moment to settle dispute between thegovernment and a former commander of the army,the prelates have said.

The Mahanayaka Theros have told PresidentMahinda Rajapaksa that the utterances by the retiredGeneral Fonseka during the election as a rival candi-date should be ignored as the former LTTE terroristssuch as Karuna Amman and Pillaiyan who evenattacked the Dalada Maligawa and the Sri MahaBodhi killing and maiming many people had been par-doned and accommodated in the government ranks.

He said that the Tamil Diaspora was still trying torevive the LTTE, though the group had been defeat-ed militarily. He said that the Army was maintaining aheavy presence in the region to meet any eventuali-ty.

Commenting on the recently concluded presiden-tial polls, he said that the Army would help the policeto maintain law and order during the upcoming par-liamentary polls.

While being appreciative of the government forimproving the living conditions of the forces, he saidthat the Army would concentrate on training this yearas they were fully occupied with military operationsover the past three years. He also discussed thesteps that had been taken to look after the warwounded, particularly centres at provincial level withthe first one established at Anuradhapura.(SF)

(Yatinuwara Pradeshiya Sabhamember Thushara Swarnathilake),Kurunegala (M. C. Jayaratne) andKalutara (prematurely retired FlightLieutenant Shantha Jayathilake).

Jayathilake, who had been with theSLAF Regiment, quit the service afterreceiving injuries in a bomb blast in theMorawewa area. He is on the staff ofDefence Secretary GotabhayaRajapaksa. Responding to The Islandqueries, he said that the JHU had nom-inated Ven. Ellawela Medhananda andVen. Omalpe Sobitha Thera as nationallist MPs.

The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna(MEP) will field a candidate each forColombo, Gampaha, Kurunegala,Hambantota, Anuradhapura, Kandy,Badulla, Nuwara Eliya and Digamadulladistricts. The MEP seeks one nationallist slot.

Over 20 ex-UNP MPs, includingKeheliya Rambukwella (Kandy),Mahinda Samarasinghe (Kalutara), Dr.Rajitha Senaratne (Kalutara),Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena(Matara), Milinda Moragoda (Colombo),Mohamed Faizer Mustapha (Kandy),Mahinda Ratnathilake (Ratnapura) andSusantha Punchinilame (Ratnapura)

will also contest on the UPFA ticket. ButMoragoda is contesting as the leader ofthe Sri Lanka National Congress. He isseeking two more slots to contest thepolls.

Veteran politician M. H. Mohamed,the leader of the nowdefunct UNP(DemocraticGroup) told TheIsland yester-day that hewas, too old tocontest anational elec-tion. The formerSpeaker saidthat he mightseek a nationallist seat but indi-cated no finaldecision hadbeen taken.

UPFA sources told The Island thatthe alliance would not be able toaccommodate the number of candi-dates as required by some parties inthe five-party Socialist Alliance.Sources said that the call for 11 slotsby the LSSP to contest Kegalle, Galle,Kalutara, Moneragala, Matale,

Hambantota, Polonnaruwa,Digamadulla, Trincomalee, Jaffna andPuttalam was unrealistic. Sources saidthe Communist Party, too, had soughtsix slots to contest Matara, Galle,Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy andAnuradhapura, whereas Vasudeva

Nanayakkara, leader of theDemocratic Left Front wants two

slots in Digamadulla. Nanayakkrawants to contest from theRatnapura District. Sri LankaMahajana Pakshaya leaderRanjith Navaratne plans to con-

test from the Kurunegala district. Sources said the Socialist

Alliance was asking for over 20 slotsto contest the polls and that requestcould not be met without jeopardisingpre-poll arrangements with other politi-cal parties and other candidates.

Former National List MP MervynSilva told The Island that he would con-test from the Gampaha District, thoughhe entered Parliament through thenational list previously. The thenPresident Chandrika Kumaratungaappointed him through the national listafter he failed to muster the requiredsupport in the Colombo District.

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