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PA National List Nominee and former Chief Minister of the North and East, Vardarajah Perumal has challenged the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe to an open debate on his inclusion in the PA’s National List. In an open invitation to a debate, Vardarajah Perumal alleges that Opposition Leader and his colleagues are trying to mislead Sinhalese by spreading false propaganda among them. He noted that “it is tragic that efforts are being made to mislead the country through propaganda and treating the people as fools and expecting their votes”. “ I posed, several open questions to Ranil Wickramasinghe when the UNP unleashed some malicious propaganda over the inclusion of my name in the PA National List by the President. He has so far not replied to these questions and continued to indulge in pretentious propaganda campaign instead, well supported by some newspapers close to him. This is clear proof of his dishonesty and duplicity. Now the same Ranil Wickramasinghe invites the president for an open debate over my inclusion in the PA list. This is indeed an inappropriate and improper proposition. She is the President of this country. She has nothing to do with the coming election. Moreover, she along with her children had to take refuge in a foreign country during the 1989-1990 period after Vijaya Kumaratunge was assassinated. So she has had no conviction whatsoever with the happenings of that period. Both Hon. Ranil and myself the only persons well aware of the happenings during 1989/1990. Former President Premadasa, Ministers Ranjan Wijeratne, Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake who had a direct hand in those happenings at that time are not alive today. I hereby challenge Hon. Ranil Wickramasinghe to have a public debate with me over what happened during 1989/1990, so that I can enlighten those UNPers who spread malicious propaganda against me based on communal politics. Further, I request Hon. Ranil Wickramasinghe and his people to stop forthwith such malicious propaganda against me if he fails to respond to my request for an open debate or rejects such a request. I further request him to extend his support and cooperation to the President and we who are stirring to find a lasting solution to the ethnic crisis and peace in the country, which ensuring harmonies relationships among communities. Our country has had enough of this ethnic war. Let’s come forward and work together towards ensuring a peaceful country where all can live peacefully and unitedly even hereafter. I call upon Hon. Ranil and his propagandists to work towards this objective....” in his invitation former Chief Minister further said.
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