Sri Lanka’s President Maithripla Sirisena met with senior members of the SLFP today, in order to resume the dialogue with former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The president stressed the need to preserve unity in the party and appointed a six member committee to reach out to the Mahinda-faction of the party.
“The President had a meeting with SLFP MPs, Provincial Council members and electoral organisers in Colombo today. He said the party’s unity was of paramount importance. He said whenever SLFP was riddled with division the United National Party (UNP) had electoral advantage,” sources said according to the DailyMirror.
Chief Opposition Whip John Seneviratne, MPs Dilan Perera, Susil Premajayantha, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Kumara Welgama and T. B. Ekanayake will be serving in the committee.
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