Susil says SLFP not in favour of unity Govt.

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SLFP National Organiser Susil Premajayanth said the party was against a national government or unity government concept and expressed confidence in a UPFA victory at the general elections. He was responding to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s remarks last week that he wished to see not a UNP but an all-party Government following the upcoming general elections. Premajayanth said candidates would be screened by the Nominations Board before being selected to contest the general election. He said they would consider the wishes of people when selecting candidates. The SLFP also condemned the NPC resolution calling for an international probe into alleged war crimes and “genocide” during the final stages of the armed conflict. Premajayanth said the use of the word genocide was not acceptable. “This is a time of reconciliation. We have rehabilitated 11,000 cadres. If there was genocide, this wouldn’t have happened,” he said.

We should win again, I am ready: MR

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a letter to General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, guaranteed that he would not leave the party or its supporters under any circumstance. Rajapaksa stated in the letter that he would continue in the party despite being criticised, insulted and sidelined. Yapa read out Rajapaksa’s letter at the SLFP’s Executive Committee meeting at Battaramulla. Congratulating the new office bearers of the SLFP, the former President said in the letter that he could not attend the meeting due to other commitments. “It is the prime responsibility of the SLFP to protect the other affiliated political parties, which were behind the SLFP all the time,” Rajapaksa’s letter noted, adding, “As such the SLFP as a party should always be there to protect the party and its members whenever they are under threat.” “I firmly believed that the newly elected President of the SLFP, Maithripala Sirisena and other office bearers will take the responsibility of protecting the party as well as its members. I can bear the continuous threats, insults and sidelining against me from both inside and outside, as a person, who is able to stand against the world’s ruthless terrorists as well as the international conspiracies,” the former President wrote. Rajapaksa noted: “We should win again. That is for the country and the party. For that purpose, I am ready to do my duty.”