The UNP parliamentary group is
scheduled to meet this morning to decide whether
the party is prepared to go in for a Presidential
poll in November this year as President Chandrika
Kumaratunga had accepted UNP leader Ranil
Wickremasinghe's challenge in this regard, Dr.
Karunasena Kodituwakku, MP and Chief UNP
spokesman said yesterday. |
Opposition and UNP
leader Ranil Wickremasinghe garlanding a portrait
of the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa at the
R. Premadasa memorial meeting at the President's
College in Kataragama on Tuesday to mark the 74th
birth anniversary of the leader. One thousand
parcels of dry rations were distributed by Mr.
Wickremasinghe among the poor at the conclusion
of this commemorative meeting. (pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja) |
