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UNP panel to further probe CMC nomination fiasco

The UNP Disciplinary Committee has appointed a three-man panel to probe further the in-house report that went into the fiasco that resulted in the party's nomination list for the Colombo Municipality being rejected last February.

The three-member panel comprises U.B. Wijekoon (Chairman), a former Cabinet Minister and Ambassador to Russia and one-time Director of Mercantile Credit Ltd., Ranjith Fernando, one-time General Manager of the National Development Bank and P. Mayadunne, a former Examiner of Questioned Documents.

The panelists will probe the Mahinda Haradasa-Milroy Perera report that investigated whether there was a conspiracy within the party to have its list rejected for the Colombo Municipal elections.

The report said they found no such conspiracy, but went on to make strong findings about the manner in which the list was handled, and recommended that the matter be gone into further.

The party's Working Committee and its Political Affairs Committee decided to go into the matter in greater detail, especially in regard to the conduct of two UNP Colombo city MPs, Milinda Moragoda and Mohamed Maharoof who were at the centre of the controversy, especially in the tippexing of candidates’ names and interpolation of their aides instead.

Meanwhile, the UNP appointed Dr. Jayalath Jayawardene, MP to replace Mr. Moragoda from the party's Political Affairs Committee from which he resigned this week soon after he returned from India where he accompanied party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.

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