UPFA Colombo District candidate Susil Premajayantha stated that the General Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA can not be removed without the consent of the SLFP Central Committee and UPFA Executive Committee.

 

Speaking to media, he stated that according to the constitution of the SLFP, the consent of the Central Committee is required to terminate party memberships or party positions of any person. The UPFA Executive Committee should give permission to remove any member from UPFA, he added. 

 

Premajayantha further said that the SLFP Central Committee cannot be convened due to an enjoining order currently in force, preventing any such meeting.

 

The Colombo District Court today issued an enjoining order preventing Anura Priyadharshana Yapa and Susil Premajayantha from acting and discharging duties as the General Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA respectively until August 28, 2015. Prof. Wishwa Warnapala has been appointed as acting UPFA General Secretary while Duminda Dissanayake has been apointed as acting SLFP General Secretary.