This is a battle between the SLMC and its Traitors in the NE – Rauff Hakeem

"Ranil-Hakeem agreements have replaced the then Ranil Wickremsinghe with a new Ranil Wickeremasinghe, the victory that we will get for Ranil Wickremasinghe will be a victory which will straighten the back bone of the Muslim community" said SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem when he was addressing an election campaign rally held in Ninthavur on Wednesday night (12/10).

Hakeem also said that the forthcoming presidential election was not a simple election nor it was an election between Mahinda Rajapakse and Ranil Wickremasinghe, but it is a battle between the North-East SLMCers and their traitors, ‘the Muslim congress activists and the well-wishers must bear this in their minds' he insisted.

"It is by strengthening this organization the SLMC, that we would be able to win our right and aspirations. If we are to reap fruitful harvest through the agreement that was entered into with Ranil Wickremasinghe, we should mobiles our fullest strength to get the highest number of votes for him, a number even greater than that would be polled by people in the LTTE controlled areas" he said.

"We have done and agreement with the UNP leader to ensure that the security and prosperity of Muslims remain in the hand of Muslims with self autonomy. We must not weaken ourselves and we should not be a barrier to the Tamil community in achieving their rights and aspirations for which they have been struggling for a long period of time, that we should win our rights". Hakeem said. While the Secretary General of the SLMC M.T. Hassan Ali read the salient points of the MOU between the SLMC and UNP presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesainghe for the massive crowd, former Parliamentarian M.L.A.M. Hisbullah, party Chairman Basheer Shegudawood also addressed the gathering.