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SLFP Chief Ministers meet

The six present and former Chief Ministers representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) urged the SLFP Parliamentarians not to extend their support to the United National Party lead government and refrain from joining any Unity Government with the UNP again.

They urged the SLFP Parliamentarians to resign FROM the party if they intend joining any UNP government.

They made these remarks while addressing media at Western Province Chief Minister’s residence last evening.

Western Province Chief Minister Isura Dewapriya said that the SLFP does not have any intension to forming a Unity Government with the UNP again.Therefore, the SLFP Parliamentarians will not extend any support to the UNP government.

“If any SLFP Parliamentarian still wants to join the UNP government, we urge such persons to quit the SLFP and do so,” he said.

Former North Central Province Chief Minister Pesala Jayaratne said they hope to request the President not to let any SLFP Parliamentarian to swear in as a Minister of the UNP government.

Former Southern Province Chief Minister Shan Wijayalal De Silva said that the Tamil National Alliance will control the UNP government by remote.

“The UNP will have to dance to the tune of the TNA,” De Silva said.

Uva Province Chief Minister Chamara Sampath, former Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake and North Western Province Chief Minister Dharmasiri Dasanayake also addressed the media. 


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