Colombo District Court Rejected A Petition Seeking To Reinstate The Former President Rajapakshe As SLFP Chairman

A petition filed by a former Boralesgamuwa Urban Council  Mayor by requesting to reinstate former president Mahinda Rajapakshe as chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) has been rejection without taking into hearing  by the Colombo District Court today(29).

The petition has stated that the Chairman of SLFP should be a member who had contested the presidential election under the party ticket .

However as the respondents of the case the secretary to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Duminda Dissanayake and former party secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa had made objections to the court by stating the petition cannot take for hearing under the powers of current president as he is named as one of the respondents of the petition ,Court has decided to reject the petition.