NPP and Muslim voters

Will Muslim voters back this mission by supporting NPP candidates?

- By Dr. Ameer Ali

A planned but scurrilous campaign launched by a policy bankrupt and squabbling Opposition, frightened already by AKD's measures taken so far to end the 76-years-old corrupt political culture built on a communal platform, has once again forced President AKD to engage himself in an island-wide counter campaign to convince voters to give his NPP coalition another comfortable victory at the forthcoming Local Government Elections.

Contrary to the lies spread by the Opposition and their social media the new Government has accomplished quite a lot so far especially in reducing the cost of living but limited by constraints set by the IMF. One should know now that cost of living is a pandemic affecting all economies.

However, while the national Government engages in its epochal mission to transform the nature, substance and shape of the country's politics, economy, and society that task could be made extremely hazardous and even be sabotaged by local governments in the hands of an opposition schooled in the old culture. A united focus between the centre and periphery is therefore essential at present.

Thanks to an erratic President currently occupying the White House such a focus has become even more critical for the Sri Lankan economy to confront the gathering momentum of a global economic turbulence as warned by IMF economists.

Tarnishing image of new regime as anti-Muslim