Panic decision: PM
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last night said that President Chandrika Kumaratunga will have to give "valid reasons" for her sudden decision to dissolve Parliament and called it a "panic decision" to overcome defeat at the scheduled Provincial Council elections.

He said that the JVP was also finding it hard to sustain its anti-government agitation campaign it had just launched. He told The Sunday Times last night that it was only on February 4 that she called for a grander national alliance of all parties to co-operate in national reconciliation, and said that the Mano-Malik talks were still in progress.

The Premier was returning to Colombo this morning. He would be cancelling his scheduled visit to Thailand tomorrow for a foreign investment seminar.

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