SLFP appoints new members to Central Committee: sources
Posted by Editor on April 14, 2015 - 7:16 am
President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed five members to the Central Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), state owned ITN reported on Monday.
Accordingly, President Sirisena as the SLFP President has appointed Ministers Arjuna Ranatunga, Nandimithra Ekanayake and provincial Councilors Ediriweera Weerawardena, Hirunika Premachandra and Prasanna Solangaarachchi, it said.
On Saturday, five former ministers Bandula Gunawardane, S.M.Chandrasiri, Rohitha Abeygunawardane, T.B.Ekanayake and Salinda Dissanayake were informed by the party that they were removed from the party’s Central Committee.

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Well done, that’s new blood in the SLFP hierarchy.
Councillor Hirunika has lots of new ideas and is a breath of fresh air in party management; her struggle against injustice to her father has been heard. Hirunika is a fearless fighter for truth and justice. That is the way the party should go. The Yahapalanaya where Mahendram makes 9billion in one day is doomed.
This action paves the way for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s return to the premiership in the next general elections.
It paves the way for Ranil and Maitri to for a national government after elections which will definitely takes place in june and it also paves the way for obtaining a 2/3 majority to pass the 19th amendment and also it paves the way for not giving nominations to the Rajapakses and his cronies