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SLFP Group of 16 to meet MR
21May By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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SLFP Group of 16 to meet MR

The Group of 16 SLFP MPs who recently quit the government, is to meet with former President MP Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday (23). SLFP MP Chandima Weerakkody told the media that the 16 MPs would meet with Rajapaksa on the 23rd evening. He said the group would discuss the current political situation and the future of the SLFP with Rajapaksa. Courtesy: Sri Lanka edition
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Ministerial portfolios vacated by SLFP ministers will still be assigned to the party
12Apr By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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Ministerial portfolios vacated by SLFP ministers will still be assigned to the party

The cabinet ministerial portfolios vacated by the resignation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) ministers of the unity government who voted for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Rani Wickremesinghe, will still be assigned to the party, a government source said. During the anticipated cabinet reshuffle the portfolios vacated by six SLFP cabinet ministers will be assigned to another group of SLFP ministers, the source said. Cabinet Ministers Susil Premajayantha, Dayasiri Jayasekara, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, WDJ Seneviratne, Chandima Weerakkody, and SB Dissanayake handed over their resignation letters to President Maithripala Sirisena today. President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that a cabinet reshuffle will be held soon and the SLFP MPs will be presented wi...
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16 SLFP ministers voted in favor of no-confidence motion against Sri Lanka PM resign from posts
12Apr By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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16 SLFP ministers voted in favor of no-confidence motion against Sri Lanka PM resign from posts

Sri Lanka Freedom party (SLFP) ministers who voted in favor of the no-confidence motion brought by the Joint Opposition against the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have resigned from their ministerial portfolios of the national government. State Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena told the local media that the SLFP cabinet, state and the deputy ministers who voted for the no-confidence motion and deputy speaker resigned from their posts and handed over the letters of resignation to President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago. The United National Party (UNP) the majority party in the unity government has complained to the President that the government cannot function with the ministers who voted against the Prime Minister and the government. Mr. Abeywardena said that the Pr...
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New Cabinet for New Year
12Apr By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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New Cabinet for New Year

Cabinet Ministers to be sworn in before New Year Unity Government to continue despite removal of SLFP ministers who voted for No-Confidence Motion Secretaries to President and Prime Minister to nominate new Cabinet according to scientific method By Skandha Gunasekara A new Cabinet of Ministers is to be appointed this week with the inclusion of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), continuing the term of the Unity Government, a Cabinet spokesman said yesterday (11 April). Co-Cabinet spokesman and Health and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, addressing the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing, said that it has been decided that the six SLFP Ministers who voted in favour of the No-Confidence Motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe would be removed from ...
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UNP MPs want removal of six SLFP ministers
5Apr By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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UNP MPs want removal of six SLFP ministers

A group of UNP MPs have written to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requesting the immediate removal of six SLFP ministers from the Cabinet of Ministers. A letter signed by 33 UNP MPs was presented last night to the Prime Minister, following the vote on the no-confidence motion. The six SLFP ministers are S.B. Dissanayake, W.D.J. Seneviratne, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Susil Premajayantha, Chandima Weerakkody and Dayasiri Jayasekara. The letter has stated that a certain group within government had continued to repeatedly criticize Cabinet decisions which were taken in consensus and act against the government while also specially making horrible statement through the media. The UNP MPs have urged the six “anti-government” ministers be removed from the Cabinet for turning thei...
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Sri Lankan President accepts responsibility to punish the responsible parties for fraud and corruption
25Jan By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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Sri Lankan President accepts responsibility to punish the responsible parties for fraud and corruption

Maithripala Sirisena says he would take the responsibility of punishing the persons found responsible for fraud and corruption by the presidential commissions appointed to probe the Central Bank Treasury Bonds and the serious frauds and corruption during the previous regime, into his own hands. He said the two Presidential commissions have been done in a correct and proper manner, even though some complain that some pages are missing in the report of the Commission on Central Bank bond issue. He assured that no pages are missing in the report handed over to parliament and explained that there were certain documents of the report that needs absolute confidentiality for conducting further investigations and if such documents are released the persons who are charged could take an undue ...
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