Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said that the promise of five years of leave for the public sector employees was another false promise given by the UNP.

Speaking at a meeting in Hyde Park Grounds in Colombo, Rajapaksa said that the UNP was planning to destroy the public sector.

He alleged that the UNP will end the free health service. Pointing out that hospitals would be put under an authority in a future UNP government, Rajapaksa warned that government and private hospitals would be the same thereafter.

The former President assured that the public sector servants would get a minimum salary of Rs. 25,000 under a UPFA government.