Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have launched their messages for Sinhala and Tamil New Yr.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s New Yr Message
The daybreak of the Sinhala and Tamil New Yr subsequent to the transition of the Solar from the home of Pisces to Aries, is taken into account as a particularly momentous event by the Sinhala and Tamil communities within the nation.
On this propitious celebration, folks historically have interaction in observing New Yr customs at stipulated auspicious instances, with the want of securing ample prosperity.
Final 12 months, amidst the unprecedented financial disaster which disrupted our day by day lives, we partook within the New Yr rituals with untold hardship and was confined to a wrestle in assuaging from this adversity.
Nonetheless, I’m gratified that the graduation of this 12 months has introduced a salubrious setting for us all, and due to this fact we should always attempt to be extra prosperous and affluent, than at this time.
We are able to undoubtedly obtain this aspiration by unitedly shifting ahead as one Sri Lankan nation.
Accordingly, regardless of differences in political affiliation, ethnicity and faith, a contemporary starting is crucial to create a brighter future for us and our nation, on this New Yr.
I want all Sri Lankans right here and overseas a contented Sinhala and Tamil New Yr.
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s Message
Sinhala and Hindu New Yr is essentially the most vital cultural competition of Sri Lankans. We have now inherited a number of historic rituals that we persistently comply with collectively on the identical auspicious instances and it is a distinctive characteristic that has not been practiced in every other nation on the planet.
We, as Sri Lankans, all the time want a affluent and bountiful new 12 months. In view of the meals and financial disaster confronted by the nation this 12 months, the trouble taken by our farmers in making the nation wealthy in rice produce, thus fulfilling that aspiration must be gratefully remembered on this New Yr.
Our forefathers who co-existed with nature added a brand new which means to the New Yr. As their kids and grandchildren, there isn’t any want for us to be taught anew about meals safety, thrift, togetherness and concord. What we want is to place them into observe.
The previous few years have given us so much to consider. The epidemics, financial and social crises are among the most critical challenges we’ve come throughout in our current historical past.
Let’s begin the New Yr, enriched with new ideas to make sure that neither we, nor the long run technology encounter related hardships.
