Gammanpila requests Maithri to vacate position as President of SLFP
The member of parliament and leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya , Udaya Gammanpila has made a plea to President Maithripala Sirisena that if he honestly loves the Sri Lanka
Freedom Party he should leave from his post as the President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.were able to achieve it for other reasons.
He had added this at a media conference held at the head quarters of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya.He had said this when a media reporter had drawn attention to a letter that the secretary general of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party had issued to the Members that they should not indulge in any activities of any other party.
Gammnanpila had further said that both the Secretary General and the President of the SLFP are both persons who do activities against the principles of the party to defeat the party.Some worked for the 08th January presidential election to get ministerial posts..Yhey also worked to make the party defeated in the August 17th general election.Those who won. However Prasanna Ranatunga and Kumara Welgama won with a large number of preferential votes.This shows that the SLFP has a peoples' vote. But they have not received the peoples' vote. Hence he had told Duminda who has no peoples' vote cannot tell them not to work with him.