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 forthcoming Parliamentary election.
The group include Patali Champika Ranawaka, Rajitha Senaratne, Arjuna Ranatunga, M.K.D.S. Gunawardena and several other ex-MPs of the UPFA. Some of them, according to highly placed political sources, will coalesce the UNP as the ‘Yahapalana Jathika Peramuna”, led by Ranawaka, while others will join the UNP, after taking its membership. They will contest the Parliamentary election from the UNP under its symbol ‘elephant’………….. READ MORE
Sri Lanka JHU monks party joins coalition with UNP
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main party of Buddhists monks is set to join the United National Party (UNP) in forming a new coalition to contest upcoming parliamentary election, political sources said a short while ago.
Talks with JHU’s Champika Ranawaka and the UNP had resulted in a new collaboration calling for good governance, the sources said. Ranawaka is also the Energy minister and a key figure behind President Maithripala Sirisena’s January 8 success……………….READ MORE