A faction of SLFP MPs and local council members turned up at at rally organized by smaller political parties today to demand that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa should run as the next candidate as Prime Minister in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
SLFP MP’s Mahinda Abeywardena, C.B.Ratnayake, Kumara Welgama and T.B.Ekanayake along with the Western Provincial council chief minister Prasanna Ranatunga, Mayor for Moratuwa Saman Kumara Fernando and a host of provincial council ministers and members along with local council members turned up for the meeting attended by a large crowd.
Mains speakers, Wimial Weerawansa, Dinesh Gunawardena and Vasudeva Nanayakkara along with former provincial council minister Udaya Gamannpila strongly urged that Mr Rajapaksa should contest the next parliamentary elections and give leadership to the campaign.
They said they were carry out similar campaigns in the rest of the country.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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