MR to respond to MS at Anuradhapura rally

Mahinda Rajapaksa who is contesting as a UPFA candidate in the Kurunegala District at the August 17 parliamentary election, told reporters yesterday that his response to President Maithripala Sirisena’s speech on Tuesday would be made at the party’s maiden rally in Anuradhapura on Friday (17). 

The former President who chaired a meeting at the SLFP’s Darley Road Headquarters yesterday, in an apparent attempt to wrest control of the UPFA’s election campaign, spoke to reporters on his way into the building.

President Sirisena claimed yesterday that he had stood firmly against Rajapaksa’s candidacy at the parliamentary election and predicted the ex President would be defeated in the August poll.