KANDY – Mahanayke of Malwatte, Tibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero urged the United National Party as a responsible political party to extend its support to change the present elections system with its very unsatisfactory features like the preferential voting system, when leader of the Opposition of the North Central Provincial Council Major General Janaka Perera called on him yesterday (15).

The current polling system not only prevented the election of competent and virtuous personalities, but also led to promote enmity and corruption, the prelate noted.

Many politicians gave assurances that they would move towards changing the elections system prior to the dates of holding elections, but forget about it after the elections were over, the prelate said.

Even the few good persons who get elected to the various policy making bodies, later fall into the same boat because they too were unable to exclude themselves form the existing system, he said.

The prelate urged Major General Janaka Perera to proceed with his commitment to serve the people while making an attempt to build his party.

Major General Janaka Perera told the Prelate that he never approved corrupt and vicious politics.

The virtuous and the intellectuals denounce corrupt and mischievous politics, Perera said, adding that he received such a large support from the people of the North Central Province because they preferred sobre politics to thuggery and corruptions.

He said that he would go and reside in Anuradhapura, the earliest home of the Sinhala race and serve the people in that part of the country.

He recalled that both main political parties invited him to join them when he retired from service, but he declined. Later he decided to take to politics with the sole intention of serving the people.

He said he believed in wiping out terrorism and his ambition was to see that terrorism was routed out.