The decision regarding the removal of 16 SLFP MP’s from their Ministerial portfolios is likely to be decided at todays SLFP central committee meeting.
16 MP’s who voted against PM Wickramasinghe at the recent no confidence vote had written to the President yesterday requesting that they be removed from their Ministerial portfolios and be allowed to sit in the opposition. However the President is yet to respond to their request Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara said.
When asked if other SLFP Ministers in the Government who abstained from voting for the no confidence motion had also decided to quit their portfolios, Jayasekera said he was not aware of any such decision by them.
The MP’s also claimed that disciplinary action against them was unwarranted, since President Sirisena had been informed beforehand of their decision to vote in support of the JO’s no faith motion.
The NCM against the PM was defeated in Parliament last Wednesday with 122 votes against and only 76 votes being cast in favor. Among the SLFP Ministers who voted in favour of the NCM were SB Dissanayake, Dayasiri Jayasekera, John Seneviratne, Lakshman Wasantha Perera, Sudarshini Fernandopulle, Tharanath Basnayake, Dilan Perera, Susantha Punchinilame, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Susil Premajayantha, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, Chandima Weerakkody, Sumedha Jayasena and Anuradha Jayaratne.
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