Portfolios - UNP undecided

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka

The United National Party is yet undecided on accepting portfolios under the proposed Memorandum of Understanding between the SLFP and the UNP scheduled to be signed possibly on October 23.

The issue is still under discussion within the UNP. Some members are canvassing for the portfolios while others seem to claim that the party should support the Government sans portfolios.

“There is no truth in media reports that we will accept portfolios because we have not yet thought about it”, UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

He said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa offered some portfolios to the UNP under the new arrangement between the two parties. But the Party was yet to decide whether to accept portfolios or not, he noted.

Attanayake said that the UNP Executive Committee will be meeting tomorrow to get the official approval to the proposed MoU with the Government. He stressed that nothing will be discussed pertaining to portfolios because it was still kept in suspense.