24/02/2010 - Ratathota
Sign the convention to ban landmines
(The Island By – K. Godage)
I was happy to learn that… Moragoda and his new Sri Lanka National Congress... taken the initiative to request the government to review its position on signing the Ottawa Convention on the banning of Land Mines...
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25/02/2010 - www.Newsfirst.lk
Polls Campaign Sans Polluting Posters, Cutouts, Says Milinda
Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress... Moragoda noted the money saved… would be used for public welfare... Moragoda... is contesting the Colombo district under the banner of the UPFA, were donated for the renovation of the Vajirarama Vihara in Bambalapitiya yesterday...
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26/02/2010 - Daily News
UPFA hands over Colombo District nominations
(by Shirley Wijesinghe)
…United People’s Freedom Alliance… handed over its Colombo District nominations for the April 8 General Election… to the Colombo District Secretariat…by UPFA General Secretary... Colombo District UPFA group list comprises… Asoka Milinda Moragoda...
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28/02/2010 - The Sunday Leader
Our Political Parties And Their Manifestos
(by Nanda Godage)
...Into this ‘mallung’ of manifestos we have the new Sri Lanka National Congress led by Milinda Moragoda coming up with “An Agenda to influence the UPFA”... The agenda does make interesting reading. Its first commitment it says is to help instill a political culture which respects the citizen... Moragoda... has decried the increasingly expensive, wasteful and vulgar campaigning... and in the engaging of vitriolic rhetoric or character assassination from public platforms...
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01/03/2010 - Daily Mirror
Milinda Moragoda makes a pledge
 ...Moragoda made a pledge at the Vajiraramaya in Colombo last week that he would run an election campaign free of posters, large cutouts, firecrackers and polythene decorations. In addition, in order to highlight the wastage of money on campaigns, he pledged to run a campaign free of extravagance, and to use the money saved on community development projects...
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02/03/2010 - Daily News
On Milinda Moragoda and his ‘strange’ campaign
(The Morning Inspection - by Malinda Seneviratne)
 Milinda... one of the few politicians who do not violate election laws... Neither does he abuse grey areas in the law... He has developed the call for a different kind of politics to a comprehensive document, which has taken the form of an ‘agenda to influence the government’. I would call it another election gimmick if not for one thing: Milinda need not have done this... There are many ways of getting into Parliament and he is endowed with more than the required complement of attributes to have an easy time of it. Milinda has taken the tougher road...
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02/03/2010 - Island
More women in politics can help change political culture - Milinda
 ...This was one of the views expressed by... Moragoda, at a neighborhood meeting... in order to get more women involved in the political process, special legislative measures should be put into place... women political leaders by providing an alternative outlook, might help to... return the focus to policy and substance...
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02/03/2010 - Daily Mirror
The UPFA and UNF messages to the electorate
Nominations for the general elections to parliament closed last Friday and now the six week long campaign is upon us... The walls of... Colombo... are... spoilt by the smiling faces of... candidates in the fray for... seats in the supreme legislature of the land... Milinda Moragoda resurrects the defunct National Congress to bring back old style values...
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03/03/2010 - The Island
Let the people have what's theirs
(by Kath Noble)
 We don't often have much in the way of good news to report. These days, a vast amount of ink is wasted on... petty issues - who will contest where, in alliance with which parties and under what symbol...That's why I was pleased to read of the efforts being made by the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms to prepare a potentially transformative bill for introduction to Parliament after the election... the Right to Information Act.
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05/03/2010 - The Island
Reward law-abiding candidates
While contestants in the parliamentary race are ruining the environment with wild abandon, a few politicians have dared to be different. They have launched clean propaganda campaigns devoid of posters, polythene etc. Among them are ...Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda... They are to be lauded profusely for their courage and concern for the environment...
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