Former Speaker and United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Chamal Rajapaksa has obtained a letter from the Parliament Secretary General confirming him to be a sitting MP, Parliament sources confirmed to Times Online.
Such a letter is needed in the event an MP is to contest the Presidential Election.
Meanwhile, UPFA MP Kumara Welgama has also obtained a letter from the Parliament Secretary General certifying that he is a sitting MP, it was also confirmed.
Earlier, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake had obtained a similar letter. Mr Dissanayake will be the JVP Presidential candidate at the upcoming election.
Several former Parliamentarians have also obtained letters from the Parliament Secretary-General in recent days certifying them to be former MPs. They are M.L.A.M. Hisbullah, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, Anuruddha Polgampola and Saman Sri Herath.
(Sandun Jayawardana)
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
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.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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