The Deputy Minister of Labour and
Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara of United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) belonging to the newly Elected government has today (06)resigned from his Ministerial Portfolio and joined Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe's government it has been announced.
He is a MP appointed from the National List and had sworn in as a Deputy Minister before President Maithripala Sirisena last Thursday (01).
However from the letter he had sent to President Sirisena to inform his resig nation ,MP Manusha Nanayakkara has said that he has accepted the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya's statement on accepting Constitutionally elected government until a faction shows it's majority in Parliament .
MP has also pointed out that he has accepted United National Party leader Ranil Wikramasinghe as the legitimate Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.