The vacant post of Parliamentary leader of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) following the recent demise of late veteran leader R. Sampanthan caused intra-party disagreements among the constituent parties in the alliance, party sources said.
Leaders of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) Selvam Adaikalanathan and People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) D. Siddarthan turned out to be front runners to the post of the alliance in which Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) is the main constituent party.
The party’s Central Committee which met last night considered the bid for Parliamentary Leader post from the alliance partners and decided to offer to Mr Adaikalanathan under the condition of reassuring that his party will continue to remain in the alliance.
The conditional offer came in the wake that other political parties are involved in setting up a new electoral alliance without ITAK in recent times.
In the wake of the ‘outing’ of parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala with accusations that his PhD was fake, there has been a flurry of articles on fake degrees.
Under the government’s initiative of disposing of high end- luxury vehicles that impose a heavy burden of public funds, other state institutions are barred from purchasing them through state procurement procedure, according to a Treasury circular.
An investigation has been launched on the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya into an incident where popular author Kasun Mahendra Heenatigala was arrested and allegedly mistreated by the Athurugiriya Police.
Mr. Gihan de Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the Government Information Department announced.
A Sri Lankan wanted for financial frauds and under a red notice was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport along with his wife and child as they were returning from India, Police said.
The Bribery Commission has apprehended former Provincial Councillor and businessman Salochana Gamage, along with another businessman, in Pitakotte over a Rs. 9 million bribery case.
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