The United People's Freedom Alliance is likely to be dissolved on August 24, highly placed political sources said.

 

"The SLFP, the main constituent party of the UPFA, is likely to pull out of the coalition. That will automatically turn its minor constituent parties into stand-alone entities," a senior spokesman of the SLFP told the Asian Mirror, a short while ago.

 

"The SLFP Central Committee, which is scheduled to meet on August 24, will make a decision on the matter," he added.

 

He also confirmed that a section of MPs representing the SLFP would join the new government accepting ministerial portfolios.

 

President Maithripala Sirisena, in his capacity as the SLFP Chairman, sacked 13 members from the party's Central Committee yesterday and appointed his loyalists to the SLFP supreme decision making body. Former President and SLFP Patron Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was also among newly appointed Central Committee members of the party.