Rohana Bandaranayake of the UNP has in a petition, in the
Supreme Court, challenged the impending act of the Elections Commissioner
to declare Nandimithra Ekanayake as an MP for the Matale District, to fill
the vacancy created by the death of Alick Aluwihare of the UNP on May 16,
2009.
The petitioner said that Ekanayake had left the UNP and
joined the UPFA. The petitioner who contested the poll at the General
Election of April 2004 and secured fourth place in the UNP preference
list, should be declared an MP. Although Ekanayake secured the third
place, he is now in the UPFA. An act by the Elections Commissioner to
declare Ekanayake the MP is arbitrary, the petition said.
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