{"id":42285,"date":"2015-07-23T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42285"},"modified":"2015-07-23T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:08:23","slug":"united-national-front-for-good-governanceunfggreleases-60-month-plan-to-change-sri-lanka-for-the-better-in-five-key-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42285","title":{"rendered":"United National Front for Good Governance(UNFGG)Releases 60 Month Plan to Change Sri Lanka for the Better in Five Key Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rainbow coalition of 8 January came together yesterday in its new avatar as the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) to unveil its 60-month plan to change the socioeconomic and political landscape.
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The UNFGG, which comprises dissident sections of the UPFA, the Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Tamil Progressive Alliance, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, the All Ceylon Muslim Congress and several other political parties and civil society movements, pledged to usher in change within five years, with focus on five key areas. <\/p>\n

Entitled \u2018A new country in 60 months\u2019, the UNFGG manifesto pledges that if it is elected to office on 17 August, the coalition will focus on strengthening the economy, implementing strong anti-corruption mechanisms and ensuring freedom and justice, infrastructure development and education reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not an election manifesto. This is a development plan. It is to implement this plan that we are seeking a mandate from the people,\u201d UNP Leader and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe told the gathering at the Vihara Maha Devi open air auditorium yesterday.<\/p>\n

Wickremesinghe said the coalition would seek to govern consultatively, including by using input from civil society through a special civil society council.<\/p>\n

The UNFGG economic policy will favour both competitive markets and social justice, the Prime Minister explained.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo go forward, we need a competitive market economy on the one hand. On the other, we must ensure social justice. The UNFGG wants to create a social market economy, to create jobs, to raise incomes, to root out corruption and foster reconciliation,\u201d the Prime Minister asserted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where we will begin our revolution. We will defeat the counterrevolution that is now being threatened. Let\u2019s say goodbye to the past, and start on a new road,\u201d Wickremesinghe urged.<\/p>\n

In clear broadsides at former President Rajapaksa who is contesting the poll as a candidate in the Kurunegala District, the Prime Minister criticised family rule established by the previous administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no interest in building palaces. I want to make your home, your paddy field, your business a kingdom for you. I don\u2019t want to create royal families. I want to make your family kings,\u201d Wickremesinghe said in a charged stump speech at the manifesto launch.<\/p>\n

JHU General Secretary Champika Ranawaka mocked the former President for making promises about a fresh start. \u201cTo start afresh, you need new people. You need new policies. Who are his people? Namal baby is contesting, Chamal Rajapaksa is contesting, Basil Rajapaksa is running his campaign, Gotabaya Rajapaksa is involved in the campaign \u2013 so where are the new faces?\u201d Ranawaka charged.<\/p>\n

The JHU strongman said new policies and new people stood on their side of the political divide.
\n\u201cThis is where we will start afresh. The new era begins here, with this alliance,\u201d Ranawaka said.<\/p>\n

Also addressing the gathering, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the \u2018yahapalanaya\u2019 journey would not end until every plunderer in the previous administration was brought to justice in the courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of those surrounding the former President are corrupt forces. People involved in ethanol smuggling and heroin smuggling and casino mafias,\u201d Senaratne charged.<\/p>\n

Senaratne said that on 8 January, they had become the Government, but the state sector had been filled with Rajapaksa loyalists.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we had with us were the people. What the people ask us today is not whether we will reduce the cost of living \u2013 we have done that. They don\u2019t ask us if we managed the reforms. We did that. They ask us what action we took against crooks and murderers, because they gave us the mandate for good governance,\u201d Senaratne charged.<\/p>\n

The Minister said that the Government was not willing to effect political witch-hunts the way the Rajapaksas did to Sarath Fonseka.<\/p>\n

An emotional Senaratne said the people were wide awake. \u201cEverywhere you look, there are green flags. By the town, by the village, the people have risen. We will win. Before we die, we will turn our motherland into a golden country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, who was the spiritual leader and architect of the common candidacy movement that brought change in January, said it was time to shed party differences and focus on policies that would change the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asking the people to forget about blue blood, red blood and green blood. It\u2019s time to band together around a common policy. Don\u2019t put ethanol crooks and drug dealers into the new Parliament,\u201d the monk urged. <\/p>\n

Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n

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The rainbow coalition of 8 January came together yesterday in its new avatar as the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) to unveil its 60-month plan to change the socioeconomic and political landscape. The UNFGG, which comprises dissident sections of the UPFA, the Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Tamil Progressive Alliance, the Sri Lanka Muslim …<\/p>\n

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