President Sirisene Sacked The Secretaries Of UPFA And SLFP -Also Suspended Their SLFP Membership

Anura Yapa And Susil Premjayantha

The Colombo District Court has issued an enjoining order this evening per the request of President Maithripala Sirisene preventing Susil Premjayantha and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa performing duties as General Secretaries of United Peoples Freedom Alliance(UPFA) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) receptively until 28th of August.

Besides the Court Order ,President Sirisena as the Chairman of  Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) suspended the membership of both secretaries according to powers vested him through the Party's Constitution.

Both Susil Premjayantha and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa  conducted a press briefing this morning and announced that six out of seven senior SLFP Politicians that President has named for Prime Minister's Post if the UPFA wins the forthcoming election have decided not to accept the premier post.They also requested the President to appoint former President Mahinda Rajapaksha as the prime minister if UPFA wins the election.

As the both secretaries were acted against his decision President Sirisene has got a court order to dysfunction the duties of both secretaries of UPFA and SFP and appointed Professor Vishwa Warnapala and Duminda Disanayake as the acting secretaries of  UPFA and SLFP with immediate effect

According to the Political Critics the latest developments which clearly divided the SLFP in to two groups in the wake of forthcoming election it will affect the vote base of SLFP and UPFA severely .