Three top leaders of National Freedom Front including Deputy leader Weerakumara Dissanayake, NFF National Organizer Piyasiri Wijeynayake and its member of North-Central Provincial Council P. B. Kumara joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday, Presidential Secretarait said.
They received the letters of SLFP membership from President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat. The three new SLFP members pledged their support to the programme carried out by the President to develop the country and ensured their support to the SLFP in the forthcoming elections.
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is due to vacate his official residence at Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo this morning, a Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) source said.
The Presidents’ Entitlements (Repeal) Bill was passed by a majority of 150 in parliament today. However the opposition MP’s were absent during the voting.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today warned that Ceylon Electricity Board Employees would have to make a choice in the next two months.
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