Thursday, November 21, 2019

Issue Of Appointing An Opposition Leader Should Be Resolved Within The UNP Parliamentary Group -Speaker

General Secretary of the United
National Party (UNP)Akila Viraj Kariyawasam  had yesterday (21)requested the Parliamentary Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to appoint UNP Leader Ranil Wikramasinghe as the opposition leader .UNP General Secretary had sent this request with a letter of support signed by 45 UNP MP's .
Meanwhile UNP MP Ajith .P.Perera who is a supporter of the Former Deputy Leader of UNP MP Sajith Premadasa had been handed over a letter signed by 40 UNP MP's to Speaker Jayasuriya during a Parliamentary Select committee meeting held at Parliamentary complex yesterday (21)requesting to appoint MP Premadasa as the Opposition leader .

However Speaker Jayasuriya has informed MP Ajith.P.Perera that the issue related to the appointing of Opposition leader should be resolved within the UNP Parliamentary group and not in the Parliamentary Select committee .

It's a tradition of the secretary of a party  to request  the speaker regarding appointing a leader of a party as the opposition leader Speaker has stressed .

Meanwhile a group of UNP MP's supporting MP Sajith Premadasa had yesterday (21)accused UNP General secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam of preventing UNP party supporters from enteting Party headquarters at "Sitikotha " to meet MP premadasa which was denied by UNP Secretary .

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