Weerawansa’s NFF Tumbles

National Freedom Front (NFF) National Organiser Piyasiri Wijenayake, who criticised party leader Wimal Weerawansa over his statement on bombing Parliament, was sacked from the party recently. Following the suit another member of the NFF Jayantha Wijesekara resigned from the NFF. Wijesekera, a former member of the NFF and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, had decided to resign following the resignation of the party secretary Priyanjan Vitharana.

Sources closer to National Freedom Front disclosed that a growing sense of disenchantment exists among members in the party. At a media briefing, Wijesekera cited that he had decided to quit the NFF following Vitharana’s resignation. He called on ‘progressive politicians from the JVP and the NFF to join forces with President Maithripala Sirisena.’ The resignation of Wijesekara and Vitharana has prompted many to rethink their decision to remain in the party.

Under these circumstances news received revealed, that ahead of the much anticipated local government polls, Parliamentarian Weerakumara Dissanayake, the Deputy leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF), is likely to cross over to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Observers say, that Weerawansa’s National Freedom Front started tumbling.