COLOMBO (News 1^st) – Issuing a New Year message President Maithripala Sirisena, says that ‘Aluth Avurudda’ is indeed an introduction of a new human race with a new vision and a new attitude towards society.

He said “the New Year binds with the traditional customs which blooms interrelations and family relationships and showers the human thoughts with refreshing fragrance which flows to the future with our deep understanding and respect we have for the traditions of the New Year.”

The Prime Minister in his message to mark the Sinhala Tamil New Year says the New Year is the foremost national festivity celebrated across the country in the splendour of spring and that it provides the ideal setting to deepen relationships with each other and share our rich cultural heritage.