INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Former President and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena today said that the party will remain independent
in Parliament. Delivering a special statement in the House, the Polonnaruwa District MP also stated that the SLFP does not condone the
decision taken by the government to impose emergency laws.Accordingly, the former President said that the 14 MPs of the SLFP including
himself will remain independent from today.The 14 SLFP MPs who will sit independently: Maithripala Sirisena
Nimal Siripala de
Silva
Mahinda Amaraweera
Dayasiri Jayasekara
Duminda Dissanayake
Lasantha Alagiyawanna
Ranjith
Siyambalapitiya
Jagath Pushpakumara
Shan Vijayalal De Silva
Shantha Bandara
Dushmantha Mithrapala
Suren
Raghavan
Angajan Ramanathan
Sampath DasanayakeMeanwhile 9 MPs representing the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), 16 MPs of
government-allied parties including Wimal Weerawansa, 2 MPs of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) and MP S
Muszhaaraff of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) have announced that they will be remain independent in Parliament.
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