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DPF – COLOMBO DISTRICT CONFERENCE – Gindupitiya – Colombo

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From: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES FRONT (DPF) <dpf@sltnet.lk>

Date: Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM

Subject: FW: DPF – COLOMBO DISTRICT CONFERENCE – Gindupitiya – Colombo – Sri Lanka

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Subject: DPF – COLOMBO DISTRICT CONFERENCE – Gindupitiya – Colombo – Sri Lanka


Pictures depicting the events at the Colombo district delegates conference of Democratic Peoples Front (DPF) held at Gindupitiya, central Colombo on Saturday 18/06/2011.


DPF leader Mano Ganesan who presided the conference addressed the assembly towards the end of the conference.


Large number of member-delegates from the Colombo district’s Colombo north, Colombo central, Colombo west, Colombo East, Borella, Avissawella, Kolonnawa, Dehiwela, Rathmalana, and Moratuwa  electoral divisions participated in the conference. Zonal committee leaders from Gampaha, Kalutara, Ratnapura and Nuwara Eliya also participated.   


Member of Western provincial council and General Secretary Dr. Nalliah Kumaraguruparan, Member of Western provincial council and national organizer S. Rajendran, Member of Central  provincial council Murali Ragunathan, Senior vice president Dr. Velanai Verniyan, Admin Secretary Priyani Gunaratna also addressed the gathering.


Ven. Malabe Seelarathana thero, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarians Vinayagamoorthy MP, Saravanabawan MP,  Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) leader Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne, United Socialist Party (USP) general secretary Srithunga Jayasuriya, Janatha Mantapaya coordinator Samantha Chandrasiri addressed the conference as the invitees.       


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Dr Vickramabahu said addressing the meeting

‘ I am glad to see the national song sung in Tamil in this conference. This is predominately a Tamil gathering; hence it is a right to do that.We must challenge Sinhala chauvinist at every point. They displayed their weakness when they attacked the TNA in Jaffna. We unitedly condemned it in Colombo. With the rise of working masses, the  government had to retreat. Hastily they promised 500Rs to plantation workers. But we cannot accept this . It is pro government unions and ministers, that have agreed to this sell out. The government by genocidal war internationalized the Tamil national problem. Now world over Tamils are campaigning for freedom and issue has been taken over by masses internationally. Tamils on this basis have got elected to parliaments in the west. Today, in this country there is a need of a new alliance to oppose the chauvinist militaristic regime of Mahinda. DPF and MANO has taken this giant step to bring us together in their conference. Let us go forward to establish a democratic rule in this country."

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