President meets with SLFP MPs

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa met with a group of SLFP MPs including former President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat last evening.

They discussed the 15-point program containing proposed solutions for the current crises in the country forwarded by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party at the meeting, the President’s  Office said.

The meeting comes amidst growing disquiet among the ruling SLPP›s constituent parties that includes the SLFP.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Ministers Basil Rajapaksa and Dinesh Gunawardena, and MP Sagara Kariyawasam joined the meeting while the SLFP MPs included Maithripala Sirisena, Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva and Mahinda Amaraweera, State Ministers Duminda Dissanayake, Dayasiri Jayasekara and Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Deputy Speaker Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, MPs Angajan Ramanathan, Jagath Pushpakumara, Shantha Bandara, Sarathi Dushmantha, Shan Vijayalal de Silva, Chamara Sampath and Suren Raghavan.