Senior DIG Priyantha Weerasuriya Has Been Appointed As Acting IGP

The senior Deputy Inspector General Of Police (DIG)  in charge of North Central Province  Priyantha Weerasuriya has been appointed as the acting Inspector General Of Police(IGP)by the President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with effect from yesterday(27).

He was apoointed as the  Acting Inspector General Of Police (IGP) as the court  has removed the former IGP Deshabandu Thennakoon from  functioning as IGP.The new acting Inspector General Of Police began his 36 year long career as a police constable before being  promoted  to the Acting IGP Post it has been revealed.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake To Address The Nation Today(25)

 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is due to address the nation via Electronic media tonight at 7.30 p.m it has been announced.

President Dissanayake is due to make a special statement 

in his speech according to the Presidents Media division.

Dr.Harini Amarasuriya Appointed As The New Prime Minister As The New Four Member Cabinet Had Sworn In

 Dr.Harini Amarasuriya of the National Peoples Power Party (NPP) has sworn in as the New Prime Minister of the Government before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake last evening (24)at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.

Four Cabinet members of the new government of President Dissanayake holding 17 ministries  had also sworn in before President last evening.The new Ministers  of the Givernment are President ,Prime Minister along with Wijitha Herath and Lakshman Nipunaarachchi.

President has also appointed new secretaries to the 17 ministries of the new governemnt.Earlier President Dissanayake has appointed Retired Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha as the new secretary to the Ministry Of Defense and former Senior Deputy Inspector General Of Police (DIG)  Ravi Seneviratne as the new secretary to the Ministry of Public Security .

President Dissanayke who was elected as the 09th Executive President of Sri Lanka had sworn in his post before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya in a simple ceremony held at the Presidential secretariat on last Monday.Afterwards President has appointed Dr.Nandika Sanath Kumanayake as the new secretary to the President .

President Dissolved The Parliament Last Night-Election To Be Held On 14 th Of November

 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved the Parliament with effect from midnight last night(24) according to the government sources.The gazette nollification regarding the dissolvement of the Parliament signed by the President has been issued yesterday .p The General Election to elect 225 members  to the new Parliament will be held on 14th of November this year and the new parliament will be convened on 21st of November it has been announced.

The nominations for the forthcoming Parliament election will be accepted from 04th of October until  12 noon on 11th of October .

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Parliament To Be Dissolved At The First Instance Received -NPP MP Harini Amarasuriya

 The newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake  will  dissolve the current Parliament to elect a new Parliament at the first instance received by him according to the National Peoples Power (NPP) party MP Dr.Harini Amarasuriya.

Speaking to the Media at the National Elections Commission office premises  in Colombo on Sunday she has stated that the new president will appoint a temporary cabinet to run the country and will be engaged in few otther activities before  dissolving the Parliament 

NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake Elected As The 09th Executive President Of Sri Lanka

The Presidential Candidate of the National Peoples Power (NPP) Party Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as the 09th Executive President of Sri Lanka with 5,740,179 votes(42.3 percent ) from the Presidential election held yesterday (21).He has been declared as the winner after counting of  second and third preferential votes received by him and his main rival Samagijanabalawegaya Party(SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa as the newly elected President didn't receive 50 percent of votes required  according to the  constitution .The final result of the Presidential election held last Saturday was announced at a ceremony held at the National Elections Commission in Colombo late sunday night.

The newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to be sworn in before chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a simple ceremony in Presidential secretariat at Galle face,Colombo tomorrow(23) it has been announced.There will be no auspicious times and welcome ceremonies for the newly elected preident the NPP has announced.Earlier NPP leaders requested the public not to light fire crackers and making milk rice at roadsides to celebrate the victory of newly elected Sri Lankan President.

Islandwide Curfew To Continue Till Noon Today(22)

The Islandwide curfew imposed since 10p.m last night(21) is due to continue till 12 noon today (22) according to the government .Earlier governmant had announced that the curfew will continue till 6 a.m this morning.

Although there is a peaceful enviornment  prevails in the island since the conclusion of the voting last evening ,President Ranil Wikramasinghe has imposed the curfew under the powers vested with him from the Public Security Act .Meanwhile according to the authorities of the Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport many top politicians representting current government  and their family members as well as their close friends have fled away from the country since last night during curfew hours.