Day: 11 July 2015

The UPFA has deprived chief SLFP organiser for Batticaloa electorate Arun Tambimuttu of an opportunity to contest at the August 17 parliamentary polls. The district comprises three electorates, namely Batticaloa, Kalkudah and Padirippu. Tambimuttu appeared before the UPFA nominations board headed by coalition’s General Secretary Susil Premjayantha last week. The UPFA has assured Arun that he would be accommodated on its preliminary National List. Thambimuttu functioned as Batticaloa electorate organiser for five years during the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second term. Tambimuttu joined the SLFP in Oct 2010 on the invitation of…

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State Minster Rosy Senanayake today challenged former president Mahinda Rajapaksa to disclose the names of ministers and deputy ministers he claimed to have safeguarded and to reveal the wrongdoings he claimed to have committed and should do so before submitting nominations on July 13. “Mr. Rajapaksa on three occasions had claimed that he safeguarded ministers and deputy ministers who committed frauds and illegal activities during his tenure as president and admitted that he had compelled the law enforcement agencies to release the wrongdoers. He must reveal these wrongdoings before submitting…

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The Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA), a new grouping of political parties of the Indian Origin Tamils (IOTs), is fighting the August 17 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections in alliance with the United National Party (UNP), TPA leader, Mano Ganesan, said in a press release on Friday.  While Ganesan is standing in Colombo District, Palani Thigambaram and V.S.Rathakrishnan is fighting in Nuwara Eliya district. Thigambaram (National Workers’ Front) and Rathakrishnan (Up Country Peoples’ Front) are ministers in the UNP government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Ganesan is the leader of the…

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Another split looms in SLFP? A group of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) members including several Ministers are preparing to contest the upcoming General Election separately and not from the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), political sources told Ada Derana. …………… READ ALL  UNP forms new alliance to contest against UPFA The SLFP – which is the main constituent of the UPFA – had shown signs of an impending split as a result of the continuous political movement carried out by loyalists of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was defeated at the…

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Somawansa gets on JHU bandwagon for the poll Former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe who recently formed a new party Janatha Sevaka Party to become its leaders has decided to contest the upcoming polls under the JHU-led Eksath Yahapalana Jathika Peramuna (United National Front for Good Governance)………… READ ALL Champika – Rajitha – Arjuna and nearly 10 Ex-UPFA MPs Likely To Contest From UNP Group of ex-Parliamentarians of the UPFA are presently holding discussions with the UNP on forming a common political front against former President Mahinda Rjapaksa to contest the…

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The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided to contest on the UNP ticket at the upcoming general election, SLMC leader Rauf Hakeem said today. He said the SLMC would contest under the UNP ticket in the districts of Puttalam, Kalutara, Ampara,Kurunegala,Kandy, Gampaha and Trincomalee while contesting under the ‘Tree’ symbol of the SLMC in the districts of Baticaloa and Vanni. WATCH – See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/79147/slmc-to-contest-under-unp-ticket#sthash.Im4ik8Gh.dpuf

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