General Secretary of the UPFA Susil Premajayantha stated that nominations of outer provinces have been signed and directed to those respective provinces.

However, certain politicians who were expecting candidacy for the upcoming polls voiced their protest as they did not receive nominations.

UPFA Chief Organiser for Colombo North, D. Rohitha Pushpakumara noted that Susil Premajayantha has taken the UPFA into his own hands and is hoping to come through the national list. Pushpakumara said that during the initial period, for two days he was there.

He added: During that period members who had worked for the UPFA were also there and he asked where the Police was and asked them to throw us out by the neck and now he is trying to use the Police to throw us out, we who worked for the UPFA. But we are not people who went there to steal from anyone but it is they who have stolen from people and they defrauded the country.

He noted the UPFA general secretary is trying to come into parliament free because he is incapable of contesting.

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