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Certain unpopular political parties are today opposing the proposed program setting up of 'Yowun Senanka" (Youth Corps) because they fear with its implementation they would hardly find a youth willing to paste their party propaganda posters on walls and wayside lamp posts in the future said Johnston Fernando, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Fernando was addressing the members of the UNP electoral organisations of Mawatagama and Kurunegala held at the Samodaya Cinema Hall in Mawatagama recently.

The Minister who spoke from the chair added that these Yowun Senankas would be established in January 2003 and about 140,000 youth would be initially recruited for the proposed Youth Corps and they would be a methodical, vocational training leading to fruitful employment opportunities while providing them with a monthly allowance of Rs. 2,000 per person.

He also said that the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is working with immense dedication to rebuild the country which was on the brink of economic ruin and resuscitate its economy and bring peace to it and therefore it should be the bounden duty of every responsible citizen to extend him a helping hand.

Kurunegala District MP Anura Gopollawa said the JVP who were carrying on a systematic campaign to disrupt the smooth functioning of factories and industries in the country by instigating employees to make unreasonable demands from their managements and the employees should not fall prey to these saboteurs.

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