SLFP EXTENDS SUPPORT TO GOVT.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) backed down from its previous position and decided to support what it called good decisions by the new government, Daily Mirror learns. SLFP leader former President Maithripala Sirisena informed his party’s latest position to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.the party appears to have taken up such a position to avert a split.

Otherwise, six MPS - Nimal Siripala de Silva, Mahinda Amaraweera, Jagath Pushpakumara, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Chamara Sampath Dasanayake and Duminda Dissanayake- had decided to join the government despite the party’s previous decision.