Colombo District Court Has Issued An Enjoining Order Against Holding Central And Executive Committee Meetings without President's Permission

The Colombo District Court has issued an enjoining order today(15) against holding Central Committee and Executive Committee meetings of Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) without prior permission of SLFP Chairman ,President Maithripala Sirisene.

The enjoining order was issued after taken in to consideration the case filed by a member of SLFP ,Prasanna Slangaarachchi .

After yesterday's controversial speech made by President Maithripala Sirisene ,the senior politicians belonging to SLFP are of the view that a central committee of the party should convene with immediate effect to discuss the matters arisen through the president's speech.As a result the secretary general of the SLFP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has requested the central committee members of SLFP to be present at a meeting scheduled to be held at 8 p.m today in SLFP Headquarters at Darly Road,Colombo.However the chairman of the SLFP ,President Maithripala Sirisene has cancelled the meeting by using powers vested to him as the Party Chairman.

Afterwards it has been reported that the SLFP Secretary General Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has again  announced that the SLFP central committee meeting will be held at 8 p.m as scheduled without considering the president's order.

Then a member of SLFP ,Prasanna Solnagarachchi has filed a court case in Colombo District Court this evening by producing the letter sent to  SLFP Secretary General by the President and request a court order to avoid convening central committee meeting of Sri Lanka Freedom Party without the approval of president.