UNP Assistant Leader Rukman Senanayake yesterday expressed his confidence of an outright army victory over the LTTE.
Senanayake said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government should be praised for boldly meeting the enemy challenge and successfully carrying out the war. The leadership given by the President and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had been very good the MP added.
He declared that the recent territorial gains on the Vanni front had made the remaining LTTE strongholds shaky.
He dismissed the view that the UNP was attempting to throw a lifeline to the LTTE.
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe recently accused the air force of failing to evacuate soldiers wounded on the Vanni front for want of fixed wing aircraft.
The Defence Secretary told that fixed wing aircraft couldn’t touch down in the Vanni as there weren’t any airstrips. All personnel wounded both east and west of the A9 had to be evacuated by helicopters or road.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that the Opposition had mixed up the Jaffna theatre with Vanni. He declared that the administration had struggled hard to provide every possible facility to the fighting soldier. He rejected the perception that all soldiers wounded in the northern and eastern provinces were evacuated by air to Colombo.
Courtesy: Lankapuvath
