Shiral and Maithri to continue campaign against Ranil

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Provincial Councilors Shiral Lakthilaka and Maithri Gunaratne vowed today to continue their campaign against United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe until he was removed from the leadership

The duo said so at a media briefing held to inform the media about their political careers after they were expelled from the UNP.

Mr. Gunaratne accused some members of the party of removing them from the party membership.

“The UNP leader is carrying out a contract given to him by the government. This is why he is so keen on expelling members from the party. He is destroying the party by expelling its members,” he said.

He added that these expulsions would also adversely affect the upcoming provincial council elections and predicted that the UNP would not be able to win the elections.

Mr. Lakthilaka said some 2.5 million party members had left the UNP due to the failure of the leadership and added that the number of UNP MPs had been reduced from 94to 41 today.

Blaming the UNP leader for the failure in the party, he challenged General Secretary Tissa Attanayake to contest the Central Provincial Council election and become the Chief Minister there.

However Mr. Gunaratne said that they were not responsible for the attack on Party Headquarters ‘Sirikotha’ and added that uprisings were due to the lack of democracy in the party.(Lahiru Pothmulla )

Comments - 11

renu Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:48 AM

No point You are sacked from the party , You look at an alternative, With who are you going to fight

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Game Man Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:02 AM

More Members the UNP throws out without replacing them the weaker the party gets. The UNP now cannot be called a strong opposition.

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Labby Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:22 AM

They are talking like school kids.

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jim Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:21 AM

all are getting thrown out except for Ranil WAKE UP UNP

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lucy Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:44 AM

Why can't these two form another party with the help of the 2.5 million supporters who left the UNP? They should act with dignity

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faz Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:10 AM

to remove ranil, u must first try to become better friend to MR. than ranil is.

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fool Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:30 AM

Join SF and win Wamba and Madayma.

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Bandara Manik Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:04 AM

Jokers- how can we unite a country when we can't reconcile party members in the same party.

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Handipora Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:17 AM

As a layman I challenge these two to prove their capabilities by contesting alone or with any other party to which they can cling on to show that the electorate is with them. If 2.5 Mio is lost to UNP they can canvass them and they would surely be stronger than SF. Why not dare do that. They are the two who carry out the contract of MR. I think these two are the biggest political fools that we saw during the recent past. They can talk and sling mud at others very well. If unable to abide by the leadership they should adopt democratic methods of ousting the leadership. They could do none of that.

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be fair Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:34 AM

You guys should consider yourselves lucky, try to get away from politics untill there is a foreseeable improvement. Its muck, dont get your hands dirty in this game at this moment of time, your services will be needed in time to come so that energy needs to be saved, but not used fight thugs in today.

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Manujer Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:02 AM

No democracy in the party as used to have police barriers and road closures.

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