Parliament must be convened immediately and a no confidence vote against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe must be called in and passed within a day to oust him, said Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Secretary General MP Dayasiri Jayasekara.

Discussions are already underway with other party leaders in this regard and the SLFP will be informing Speaker of the motion as soon as possible, he revealed.

A group of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MPs are also in favour of this motion, the SLFP Secretary added.

Jayasekara’s comments come in in the backdrop that SLFP Leader Maithripala Sirisena has been angry with Wickremesinghe for some time, and he had once publicly stated that he would attack like a hawk who harasses him.

MIAP