Handover Sirikotha to SJB: SJB tells Ranil

• Says we have a right as we are former UNPers

By Yohan Perera  

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday demanded President  Ranil Wickremesinghe to hand over the UNP headquarters Sirikotha to the  SJB. 

 
Addressing the media, the party’s election manager Sujeewa Senasinghe said that SJB has a right to claim Sirikotha.  “We have a right to claim Sirikotha as we are former UNPers,” he said.   Expressing concerns about UNP’s current plight, Senasinghe  also said “We hope that UNP leader will work according to his conscience  and handover the Sirikotha to us. He should do so, for the sake of the  remaining UNPers. Some of his sins would be forgiven if he hands over  Sirikotha to us,” he said.  

“We were compelled to form SJB as we were not able to remove Wickremesinghe from the UNP leadership,” he added.  

In the meantime, Senasinghe referred to the remark made by  UNP General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara who called for a referendum  to extend the terms of the President and Parliament where he said it is  unbelievable as to how he could had become pro-Wickremesinghe. “Range  Bandara was one of the staunch anti-Wickremesinghe figure in the UNP  those days. He was at the forefront with us to change the UNP leadership  during that time. I am the one who stopped him from crossing over to  the 52-day government formed in 2018. He was offered a ministerial  portfolio by SLPP during that time,” Senasinghe said.