UNP meets Tuesday on LG polls: Tamil parties to pressurize Govt. on N-E issues
September 11, 2010 11:55 pm
The United National Party (UNP) leadership is to meet on Tuesday to discuss the party’s preparations to face the upcoming Local Government elections, says Gampaha District Parliamentarian Joseph Michael Perera.
Party frontliners Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya, General Secretary Tissa Attanayake, Joseph Michael Perera among others are scheduled to meet UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at party headquarters Siri Kotha to discuss the Local Government polls scheduled to be held under the first-past-the-post system.
Meanwhile, UNP member Gayantha Karunatilleke said that they expect a meeting with party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe next week to seek an early solution to the party crisis.
A 25 member group out of the 43 UNP Parliamentarians have decided to sit in the Opposition as an independent group if the party fails to find immediate solutions to the numerous problems faced by the party.
Ten Tamil political parties within and outside the parliament too met today to iron out difference among them, said Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) leader M.K. Sivajilingam.
He said they had decided to make representations to the government regarding the short comings in the resettlement process, the day to day problems faced by the Tamils especially in the North and East and also regarding the disappearance of the TMVP Municipal Councilor Pragasam Sahayamany.
The 10 parties are scheduled to meet next on October 2 at Kilinochchi, Mr. Sivajilingam said.
