In this year’s local government elections, S.J.B. expressed his views on a method of knowing in advance the number of votes his party will get. Member of Parliament Tissa Attanayake has made a statement.
According to him, “Government through village level prosperity and agriculture officials are getting information from the state machinery at the village level and Basil is declaring that we are winning by so much and they are right”.
He stated that the prosperity and agriculture officials had an influence on the people at that time and that is not the case now.
“We are saying the same this time, but we are not saying that we have taken information from the state machinery. We get the information through the ‘Jana Paura’ voluntary organization. Within a month, we will be able to say that we will win these local government institutions with this much money,” he said.