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UNP WORKING COMMITTEE HAS GIVEN A BLANK CHECK TO RANIL WICKREMESINGHE TO SIGN A MOU SAYS ATTANAYAKA

By Walter Jayawardhana

The protégé of Ranil Wickremesinghe and General Secretary of the United National Party Tissa Attanayaka has attacked the Democratic Wing of the party led by Karu Jayasuriya and said they should not be unnecessarily worried about getting the permission of Working Committee of the party for the MOU signed with Sri Lanka Freedom party’s Mangala wing as the working committee has given a blank check to the leader to sign the MOU.

UNP dissident and member of the democratic Wing Minister Laxman Yapa Abeywardena has said the failure of the leadership to obtain the prior OK for the MOU indicated the reigning dictatorship of the leadership and lack of internal democracy in the UNP at present. He warned this could become the second cause for litigation in addition to the present one the party dissidents have filed.
Protégé Attanayaka clarified at a press briefing that the working committee has given a blank check (cheque) to the party leadership to sign the MOU.

But he failed to indicate how the working committee has given a blank check to the party leader and when. But Attanayaka indicating that the details of the MOU were not known to the working committee said the details of the MOU that was signed between his “nayaka thuma” (respected leader) and the SLFP-M wing leader Mangala Samaraweera will be revealed to the working committee at its next meeting.

Dissidents retorted back by saying that the working committee has been turned into a rubber stamp body of the “nayaka thuma”.Laxman Yapa Abeywardena asked how a party leader who said a deputy leader of the party was not necessary has now agreed to an office of a deputy Prime Minister that has no provision in the party constitution or the country’s constitution .

While Laxman Yapa Abeywardena has said the Ranil-Mangala Rally which was held at Hyde Park instead of the customary UNP site of meeting , the Municipal Council grounds to conceal the non-attendance of many people Tissa Attanayaka said it was a great success.

Laxman Yapa Abeywardena said while the UNP expected 500,000 people the rally was attended by 15,000. But Tissa Attanayaka said the new alliance would have massive rallies on August 10, 17 and 24 at Matara, Anuradhapura and Nittambuwa. A rally in the President’s home constituency Hambantota is also being organized he said.

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