Anura greeted with a hooting welcome at Aranayake

It is reported that on the 16th instant when the Minister of disaster management Anura Priyadarshana Yapa  and others who came  for a  coordinating meeting to discuss the problems of the Aranayake landslide affected people at the Regional health services office in Aranayake  they had been greeted with
hooting welcome.

The Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa had been accompanied with the Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa Province Maheepala Herath, The Minister of Highways and restructuring of public enterprises Kabir Hashim and the former deputy minister of health Lalith Dissanayake. All these personnel had been greeted in this manner by an angry crowd.

The people who had gathered had blamed the persons who came for the coordinating meeting that it is useless having meetings without resolving the grievances of the affected people. As a result the proposed meeting had taken place after a delay of about one hour.

On the 16th instant from 11 am the affected people had staged a protest between the Gavilipitiya junction and the Dippitiya town which had delayed and blocked traffic for almost two hours. As a result of the protest the roads had been closed.

The Officer in Charge of the Aranayake police station Sujeewa Gunatillake had made a plea to the protestors to stop jeering and allow the Ministers and the group to conduct the planned coordinating meeting. The OIC too had obtained consent from the angry crowd to attend the meeting.

However when the Ministers and others who attended the coordinating meeting were leaving the premises of the regional health services office once again the hooting had stated. They had said they need permanent solutions and not temporary solutions like attaching plasters.