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UPFA
finalizes list, UNP starts
on Monday
Elephant – Swan tussle
still unresolved
The Elephant vs Swan tussle remains alive and kicking with both the UNP and the JVP refusing to give in with nominations for the election commencing on February 19.The government side has nearly finalized its list of candidates with three nomination boards chaired by Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva, Anura Priyadharsana Yapa and W.D.J. Seneviratne completing their task.Their lists have now gone to an appeal board chaired by Prime Minister, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, the SLFP’s Administrative Secretary, H. Ariyasena said yesterday.
‘Sixty percent of SME
sector on verge of collapse’ – SMI Chamber president
‘Unless the government extends a bailout package
immediately to the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector, a minimum
of 60% of these enterprises would collapse, throwing a considerable
number of the sector’s..
Moragoda’s new party
spurns election campaign extravagance
Minister Milinda Moragoda’s new Sri Lanka National Congress, expected to
run three candidates (including Moragoda) under the ruling UPFA banner
in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, has in a letter to "fellow
citizen’’ has criticized wastefull
