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.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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