Leader of the SLFP-M Mangala Samaraweera yesterday offered Rs.100,000 to anyone who can prove that promises in the ‘Mahinda Chintana’ have been fulfilled.

Addressing a news conference Colombo, he said that the ‘Mahinda Chintana’ contained 87 pages and he could say without any doubt that none of the pledges had been honoured.

"Please go through the 87 pages and tell me if any of the promises have been implemented," Samaraweera said. "If,someone can prove that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has kept his word, I will give that person Rs.100,000.That,is all I can afford."

The government, he said was spending huge sums on President Rajapaksa’s election campaign and one example was the ‘Nil Balakaya’ advertisement, which costs Rs.140,000 per minute. The people are entitled to know from where such monies came.

Among the falsehoods being spread by the Rajapaksa administration was that children in rural schools were being provided lunch, but such things do not happen, Samaraweera said.

"Construction of bridges that commenced under the Chandrika Kumaratunga government are being declared open now by the Rajapaksa regime and credit claimed for it," he said. "The Uva Paranagama University was inaugurated with much fanfare prior to the Uva Provincial Council Election. But it does not have any of the facilities that a campus should possess."

A section of the UPFA, Samaraweera alleged, was resorting to abductions and violence against those engaged in General Sarath Fonseka’s polls campaign.