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DateLine Sunday, 15 June 2008

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SB will not be appointed MP

No UNPer will fill vacancy:

The United National Party (UNP) will not appoint its National Organiser S. B. Dissanayake as MP to fill the vacancy created after the resignation of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Leader Rauf Hakeem who had entered Parliament as a UNPer.

Hakeem who entered Parliament under the UNP list had resigned to contest the last Eastern polls.

UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake told the Sunday Observer that neither the Working Committee nor the Political Affairs Committee of the party has taken any decision on this matter and the party will not appoint a UNPer to the vacant post.

"This seat is given to the SLMC and according to the understanding between the two parties it will not be filled by the UNP. A SLMCer will be appointed soon", he said.

Attanayake said that the Working Committee would appoint a Nomination Board tomorrow and the UNP would take a decision on their activities regarding the forthcoming elections, next week.

The UNP has appointed two committees headed by Ravi Samarasinghe for the Sabaragamuwa Province and MP Lakshman Kiriella for the North Central Province. "Election activities for the two provinces will be decided following these two reports", he said.

Meanwhile, Attanayake refused the media reports on party decision to appoint Dissanayake and Hambantota District MP Sajith Premadasa to lead the party election campaign.

He said that the party had not yet decided to nominate S.B. Dissanayake to the Chief Ministerial post of either provinces.

When contacted the UNP National Organiser said that the UNP would not get back the seat given to the SLMC. He said that as he had lost his civic rights, the party was now in the process of consulting legal experts to look into the possibility of him to contest the elections.

"Until then I am the S. B. Dissanayake who has no civic rights", he said adding that there are lots of requests from the UNP supporters to lead the party campaign for the two provincial council elections.

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