An agreement has been reached to form a single United National Party(UNP) government with some internal changes of the party as per a proposal made by Backbench MP's of the UNP during the meeting held at Prime Minister's official residence Temple Trees in Colombo between the Backbench MP's and the Prme Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe this morning(13) according to the sources.A group of UNP Backbenches including MP's Mayantha Dissanayake,Nalin Bandara,Hector Appuhamy and Kavinda Jayawardane were participated this meeting .
At present UNP have 107 members in the Parliament and the Party is short of 08 members to form a stable government,However 10 MP's attached to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have agreed to join the UNP government to make the forming of a single Government a reality it has been revealed.
UNP is also considering to reduce the number of Cabinet members in the new government to 30 Ministers it has been announced.President Maithripala Sirisena was also informed over the UNP's decision on forming a single government and President has no objection over it according to sources.
Meanwhile requests are pouring in towards the UNP leadership to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe from the Party Leader and Prime Minister posts due to the election defeat and replace him with either MP Sajith Premadasa or Speaker Karu Jayasuriya it has been revealed.
Due to this situation the UNP Parliamentary Group is due to meet Prime Minister Wikramasinghe this evening to discuss on the conflict arisen in UNP and plans to suggest the Prime Minister to step down from the post according to reports.
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