The Sri Lanka Freedom Party will ink five agreements with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna today (Oct 14) to establish five committees, SLFP Acting Chairman Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa said.
Mr. Piyadasa stated that these committees will include one each to decide the manifesto, and economic policy of the proposed alliance between both parties.
Other committees would be formed to decide on the presidential election campaign of SLPP candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, and matters concerning the upcoming parliamentary election.
The SLFP and the SLPP will contest under the common symbol of a Chair at next year’s Parliamentary poll.
Meanwhile, the SLFP Acting Chairman stated that his party would sign an agreement with Rajapaksa next week.
(Reporting by Damith Wickramasekara)
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
The former leader of the New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the New Left Front and well-known figure in left-wing politics in Sri Lanka, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, passed away at the age of 81.
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