UNP Backbenchers to Demands Sajith as Leader…..

The Prime Minister has appointed a committee headed by Sajith Premadasa, J.C. Alawathuwala and Ruwan Wijewardena to reorganize the party.

Alleging the UNP has failed to reorganize the party,  20 MPs are boycotting the party parliamentary group meetings. They have discussed among themselves and decided also to ask that the next leader of the party be either elected or appointed and that that person be tasked with handling election campaigning. They will also ask the UNP leadership to strengthen the party membership within the next 18 months, noting that they had been ignored in the past three years.

They wanted Wickremesinghe to continue as Prime Minister, but that a new leader should lead the UNP, they said. The backbenchers want the implementation of the Wijewardena committee recommendations and going to ask PM Ranil Wickremesinghe to name Sajith Premadasa as the party leader succeeding him.