(): The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is set to get into a long legal battle this election year with separate factions trying to gain control of it as Nimal Siripala de Silva, an incumbent minister, was on Monday appointed the party’s acting chairman in place of former president Maithripala Sirisena. SLPP is one of the major and most well-known political parties in Sri Lanka which has ruled the island nation for many years.
“Today we took important decisions to carry out party functions without interruptions. The central committee meeting decided to elect an acting chair,” Duminda Dissanayake, the party’s national organiser, told the media.
Last week, Sirisena was clamped with a restraining order as the leader of the party after he dropped from party posts de Silva and two others, who are also ministers in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government.
The trio has already obtained the court’s interim orders suspending the action of Srisena, the 72-year-old former prime minister.
