Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe today said that not only the Tamils and Muslims but even the majority Sinhalese people are now facing various problems in Sri Lanka, under the present regime.
“This is why we are running a campaign that we want a national election in 2014,” he told reporters in Chennai.
The Leader of the United National Party (UNP) is currently on a visit to India and is expected to hold talks with several political leaders in New Delhi during the three-day tour.
Asked about the highly anticipated polls in the Northern Province in September, Wickramasinghe said all opposition parties in the Sri Lanka, including the UNP, have insisted that they want a “good election,” however expressed disappointment over the absence of international observers.
“We are disappointed that the election observers have not been called from the very beginning,” he said.
He stressed that all opposition parties had insisted that they wanted foreign election observers called the very day that nominations were handed in for the Provincial Council polls. “That has not happened,” he said.
