Social Services Minister and EPDP General Secretary Douglas Devananda said that President Rajapaksa would score a land-slide victory at the Presidential election.

Although the JVP had expressed its willingness to support UNP, their attempts to defeat the UPFA Government would be in vain, he said adding that the EPDP would soon issue a statement on why the Tamil community should support the UPFA Government.

He said the Tamil community was aware that Tamil liberation could be achieved only through democratic means and not through an armed struggle. The Tamil community had placed its trust and confidence in President Rajapaksa because it was he who took bold action to crush the LTTE.

The EPDP had carefully studied how the Government had served the Tamil community. The UPFA Government had done much work for Tamil community, especially in the rehabilitation and resettlement programmes, he said.