CBK-Welgama to lead SLFP breakaway to ‘defeat Pohottuwa’
Over 200 electoral organisers of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) met for a seminar in Colombo on Friday (25) chaired by senior party MP Kumar Welgama, to agree on a program to defeat the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at the presidential election.
The SLFP leadership had earlier decided to support the SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and several party officials have appeared on stage at SLPP election rallies.
Welgama told the gathering that tying up with the SLPP is a recipe for destroying the SLFP. “We must defeat the Pohottuwa to save our party,” he said. “I will not vote for the Pohottuwa. But I will use my vote, as is my democratic right. Because of this, I know that the Pohottuwa will be defeated,” he said to raucous applause from the crowd.
Among the attendees were a number of former SLFP Ministers and MPs including Athauda Seneviratne, Milroy Fernando and Ruwan Ranatunga. “We were all there, so we know how the Rajapaksas operated while in power,” Welgama told the group.
He made reference to a recent break in at his residence in Aluthgama, when an unknown assailant had broken into and ransacked his private bedroom. “As soon as I found out that nothing had been stolen despite the room being full of valuables, I knew who was behind this and what they were trying to do,” Welgama said. “But I will not be frightened. I have never been frightened.”
(Source: Sunday Observer)
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it needs not be with a 2/3 majority if the 13th amendment to the constitution is abolished which I have made in the Supreme Court in 2018 and is awaiting a date for support together with 20th amendment which was gazetted in 2018 July 9th
Sri Lanka is the only country on this planet that we see even the proven, most destructive national elements who are now all but considered ‘relics’ keep haunting us for nothing but sheer Rs.2.50 category entertainment!
CBK, We haven’t forgotten the fiasco with Water’s Edge, and how you fled to UK to avoid it!