Convening a media briefing in Colombo on Monday April 25, the SLFP expressed the following views.

Chief Minister of the Southern Province,  Shan Wijayalal de Silva stated that a colleague of the former leader of SLFP as well as former minister, is going around the country at the local government level distributing large amounts of money to gather crowds to attend the May Day Rally. It’s perplexing how he amassed so much of wealth, he stated.

Explaining further he added that Mahinda Rajapaksa still has the opportunity to think about the party and come to a certain decision.

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