Akila makes request to name Ranil as Opposition Leader
Posted by Editor on November 21, 2019 - 2:20 pm
General Secretary of the United National Party Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has requested Speaker of House Karu Jayasuriya to appoint leader of the UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Leader of the Opposition.
It is reported that he made a written request to the Speaker in this regard.

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Isn’t this the kook who was urging parents to send kids to school immediately after the Islamist-terrorist attack last Easter Sunday while most of the cabinet ministers were keeping their kids at home? This flake’s got to be an undercover agent for a well-funded NGO that’s out to ensure the west’s control over Sri Lanka will not wither away just because Gota is now the Prez.
As Amarakoon mentioned in this forum, Ponil is the darling of the west (the west which never helped SL to defeat the LTTE terrorists, but was always urging ‘talk peace with LTTE’ over the 25 years of that horrific war) and it’s certain they are not about to abandon their darling easily.