Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena said he aims to form an SLFP government which will include former presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chandrika Kumaratunga.
Speaking to SLFP members in Nuwara Eliya, the president said some elements, who threatened to split from the SLFP-led the UPFA and form different political fronts, were doing a great injustice to the party, but that he and his team would never allow the party to split.
Mr Sirisena said votes from Sinhala Buddhists alone would not be enough to win the elections and an action plan to win over the Tamil and Muslim voters will be devised.
His current ally, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, meanwhile said he would not allow a UPFA government to be formed. Speaking at a UNP meeting in Temple Trees, the prime minister said the 100-day programme mandated by the people had ended.
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