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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

New President Assumed His Duties -Appointed Two Controversial Figures As Presidential And Decense Secretaries

President Gotabaya Rajapakshe has

today (19)assumed his duties as president at Presidential Secretariet in Colombo .

He has appointed Former Treassury Secretary Dr.P.B Jayasundara as the new Presidential secretary.

Retired Army Major General Kamal Gunaratne has been appointed as the Defense secretary and Dr.S.R Atigala appointed as finance secretary and secretary to the Treasurry .

The appointment of Dr.P.B Jayasundara as Presidential Secretary and Major General Kamal Gunaratne As Defense Secretary becomes controversial to many due to their imvolvement in malpractises in the past .

New finance secretary Dr
Atigala is a deputy governor of Central Bank and gave evidence before the Bond scam committe regarding the Central Bank Bond Scam it has been revealed .

National Election Commission To Recycle Cardboard Ballot Boxes

National Election Commission has

decided to provide 13,000 Cardboard Ballot boxes purchased for the recently concluded Presidential Election to a private company for recycling process the Commission has announced .

By providing these Cardboard ballot boxes for recycling Commission wil receive an extra income it has been reported .

Election Commission has purchased the Cardboard Ballot Boxes by spending Es.1200 for a Box .

Party Leaders Meeting To Be Held This Week To Discuss On Future Governmemt Activities-Speaker

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has today

(19)announced that a party leaders meeting will be held this week to take a decision on ,the way the government activities should be carried out due to the people's mandate given to President Gotabaya Rajapakshe at the presidential election .

According to the Speaker one of the proposed altetnative meassures given below will be taken at the talks .They are-

(01)Dissolving the Parluament in March 2020 and holding the General Election in April.

(02) Voluntarily providing two third majority to dissolve the parliament

(03) resignation of Prime Minister and the Cabinet .

Meanwhile Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe held talks with President Gotabaya Rajapakshe this evening (19)at Presidential Secretariet regarding functioning the govetnment under present circumstances.