By Prasad Gunawardena
Former PA Minister, veteran Trade Unionist, Alavi Moulana excluded from the PA National List selection for the new Parliament has declined the offer to be the Governor of the Western Province, authoritative sources said yesterday.

Moulana was summoned for a meeting on Monday by PA General Secretary D. M. Jayaratne and Presidential Secretary K. Balapatabendhi to be told that he could be the Governor of the western Province as the party could not accommodate him in the national list.

Mr. Alavi Moulana has declined the offer stating he would prefer to continue in PA trade union activity as the post of a Governor did not suit a person who had committed himself for trade union activity for nearly five decades.

Moulana will now revert to his former office at the SLFP headquarters which he occupied for over forty years before entering Parliament in 1994 on the PA National list.

Former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar leads the PA National List and among those selected are D. M. Jayaratne, Ronnie de Mel, Ajantha de Zoysa, Segu Issadeen, Dilan Perera and S. Sathasivam.