Basil to oversee Kolonnawa temporarily   [October 11 2011]

Parliamentarian and SLFP’s Gampaha District chief organizer, Minister Basil Rajapaksa has been appointed to oversee the social and political activities of the party in Kolonnawa electorate with immediate effect.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made the appointment on a temporary basis after the death of former parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. SLFP’s chief organiser for Kolonnawa Duminda Silva MP was critically injured in the incident and is warded at the ICU of the Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital.