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| Urgent meeting between President and Ranil |
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| -UNP MPs criticize Ranil for acting without consulting party |
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 (Lanka-e-News, July 11, 2010, 12.30 PM) Responding to an urgent invitation from the President, Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe met the President yesterday (10).
The President has told Ranil he summoned him to get his views regarding the proposed amendments to the constitution.
It is reported that the UNP and Opposition leader had stated that he cannot express his views unilaterally; and that he wished to have a meeting along with his party representatives. He had also added that the Deputy leader of the party Karu Jayasooriya is focusing special attention on the 17th amendment to the constitution.
It is however learnt that the President has not paid much heed to Wickremesinghe’s references to the 17th amendment.
The President who agreed to Wickremesinghe’s suggestion, had fixed the discussion for12th Monday at 5.00 p.m. |
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Ranil Wickremesinghe made it abundantly clear at the conference recently at New Town Hall, Colombo titled ‘mobilizing support of people against proposed constitutional amendments’ held in regard to the spiraling cost of living, price hikes and constitutional amendments, that the UNP is for amendments which benefit people, but is opposed to those which are designed to fortify, fatten and benefit the ‘family’. In such an event, the UNP will mobilize the people to stage Island wide protests and demonstrations against it.
The President has urgently summoned the opposition leader soon after these announcements. |
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Meanwhile, a group of UNP MPs have expressed displeasure over Wickremesinghe meeting the President without informing the party, after recently getting down all the UNP Organizers, Urban Council members, Provincial Council members and advising them to prepare for an all Island protest campaign citing various grounds, as well as against the secretive and insidious efforts of the Govt. to amend the constitution.
This action of the UNP leader meeting the President without informing the party after making all those protest arrangements is an effort to play hide and seek with the party interests, the members claim. They assert that if discussions are to be held, it should be after a stance is taken by the MPs and members who were summoned earlier in regard to the proposed protest campaign.
They recalled that on earlier occasion too, the Opposition leader met the President. Thereafter, at the subsequent discussions with the President, Wickremesinghe did not participate, but sent Dep. Leader of the party Karu Jayasooriya, and Dr. G L Peiris. Later, when terms and conditions were being formulated to support the Govt., these two UNP MPs joined the Govt. The consequences of the present discussions cannot however be predicted, but the leader of the party will not partake in the discussions is nevertheless known already, a UNP M P reported to Lanka e news. |
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