Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has received the green light from the UPFA central committee to contest as a common candidate at the August 17 general election under the betel symbol
UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha, SLFP General Secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Opposition Leader Nimal Siripala de Silva communicated the President’s message to Mr. Rajapaksa today in Kandy.
Meanwhile President’s media unit released a stament that no candidate fielded by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party had been nominated as the prime ministerial candidate and that President Sirisena had not agreed about the prime ministerial candidacy.
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