The leader of the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) R.Sampanthan
has been appointed as the leader of the opposition when the Parliament convened this morning.The speaker Karu Jayasuriya has anounced the decision of appointing the new opposition leader.
He is the second tamil politician elected as opposition leader at Sri
Lankan Parliament since A.Amirthalingam .
MP Sampanthan has been elected to the parliament at the recently concluded Parliamentary Election.from Trincomalee District.TNA has secured 16 parliamentary seats at the election and
became the main opposition after a section of United Peoples Freedom
Alliance(UPFA) which secured 95 seats at the parliament has decided to
join the unitary government formed by governing United National
Party(UNP),
Earliar a section of UPFA which decided to sit in the
opposition has sent a letter to President Maithripala Sirisene by
requesting to appoint Kalutara District(In western province)MP Kumara
Welgama as the oppositon leader in parliament,Fifty Seven out of Ninty
five elected UPFA MP,s have signed the letter.
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