The vacant seat of JVP to Bimal Ratnayake
It is learnt that the seat made vacant with the resigning of the JVP national list Member of parliament former Auditor General Mayadunne has been awarded to the Bimal Ratnayake.
This decision had been taken last night when the central committee board of the JVP had met.Bimal Ratnayake had contested for the Gampaha seat but had not secured sufficient preferential votes to win a seat in the parliament.
Accordingly one seat from the national list was awarded to Sunil Handunnetti who contested from the Matara district while the other was awarded to Bimal Ratnayake who contested from the Gampaha district..