It is now in the grapevine that Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva, who was on a US tour recently, had secretly met Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to discuss a wide range of matters including the former's future "political plans."
The meeting had taken place while the Opposition Leader was on a month long study tour at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). However, what was discussed at the meeting between the Opposition Leader and Minister Mervyn Silva has now been leaked to the top echelons of the government, highly placed political sources said.
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Minister Silva, prior to his visit to the US, informed the top rung leaders of the government that he would be visiting the US to receive medical treatments for his injured knee.
It was also reported that Minister Silva, during his visit, was looking to buy a luxurious house from the US.
However, the United National Party is no alien place to Minister Silva as he crossed over to the UNP from the SLFP in 1993, along with the late Anura Bandaranaike. A few years later, he publicly apologized from former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and came back to the SLFP when she was in power.
