RELIGIOUS LEADERS INTERVENE TO RESOLVE POLITICAL CRISIS

Religious leaders including Venerable Ittapane Dhammalankara Thera and Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith have met President Maithripala Sirisena in a bid to resolve the present political crisis through a dialogue of all political parties.

Cardinal Ranjith in a statement said he together with Venerable Ittapane Dhammalankara Thera had met President Sirisena on Friday.

“We met President on Friday and told him to meet all parties and try to resolve

We met President on Friday and told him to meet all parties and try to resolve the present crisis and offered to play a role in it

the present crisis and offered to play a role in it,” Cardinal Ranjith said in his statement.

He has mentioned in his statement that Chairman of Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya was also at President’s office at that time but they did not confer with him. “We did not confer with the Chairman of Election Commission as we only wanted to meet President Sirisena,” he said.