The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has finally decided on the candidate to fill the parliamentary seat that fell vacant by the demise of former Minister Salinda Dissanayake.
The UPFA has nominated H. M. D. B. Herath to fill the vacant UPFA parliamentary seat in the Kurunegala District.
Herath’s name has been gazetted as the new parliamentarian to fill the vacant seat.
Controversy surrounded the filling of the vacant seat with the next in line from the Kurunegala list being Shantha Bandara, who was appointed to parliament through the National List.
However, following Dissanayake’s demise, Bandara resigned from the National List slot to fill the vacancy created by Dissanayake. The argument then was that Bandara could not be nominated through the Kurunegala District list since he was already in parliament as a National List MP.
The controversy has now ended with Herath’s appointment.
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