Following is the total textual content of his message:
“The Sinhala and Tamil New 12 months, which begins with the transition of the Solar from Pisces to Aries, might be known as a festive event that’s celebrated with nice pleasure by the Sinhalese and Tamil individuals in Sri Lanka and everywhere in the world.
“On today, which marks the nice cultural pageant of Sri Lanka, everybody performs the identical activity in unison on the identical auspicious second and due to this practice, the Sinhala and Tamil New 12 months may be very fashionable among the many remainder of the world.
“All of the individuals carry out these rituals to the very best of their means on today, hoping for prosperity and fertility within the coming 12 months.
“However I imagine that the previous interval was not an excellent interval for Sri Lankans. The nation confronted many issues equivalent to elevated tax burden, rising costs of products, inner crises, and so on., and the present 12 months is a 12 months of elections. I imagine that this 12 months, a authorities aspired by individuals can be shaped within the nation and prosperity will come once more to our motherland.
“Additionally, the time has come for all of us to hitch palms as one to eliminate the present chapter and make our nation a rustic with a self-sufficient financial sample and create a proud nation with peace, happiness and luxury.
“We’ve an enormous problem to place an finish to the brand new normalisation within the nation and to re-introduce the life normal that existed in it a while in the past. That problem might be overcome solely by the united motion of all 22 million individuals within the nation. As we will see a silver lining in each darkish cloud, let’s rally to finish this darkish age and usher in a affluent age within the truest sense of the phrase.”
