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Responsible persons in the UNP should not provoke the party members and create divisions in the party, Assistant General Secretary of the party Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena said yesterday.
“It is a crime to mislead the ordinary members of the party by creating divisions among them as they are the back bone of the party,” Dr. Jayawardena said in a statement yesterday.
He said the party hierarchy should work towards uniting the members at grassroots level by telling the truth.
Dr. Jayawardene said the party hierarchy should realise that what the ordinary party members wanted was a UNP government and not to rebel against the leadership.
“All responsible persons in the party should understand this reality,” he said.
He explained that two ideologies regarding the working committee and the parliamentary group had led to the present crisis in the party.
“Some are of the view that the two bodies represent the majority view of the members while others hold an opposite view,” he added.
However, Dr. Jayawardene said the current party constitution was never adopted with the aim of ousting anyone from a position. He said the party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, the executive committee and the working committee were responsible for enacting this constitution.
He added that the national executive committee and the working committee of the party also comprised MPs, and representatives of party affiliated associations. He therefore said the working committee under the new constitution was effectively appointed.
“Therefore one cannot conclude that the said committees do not reflect the common views of the party,” he said. Dr. Jayawardena thereby said the officer bearers for 2012 had been elected effectively. (Yohan Perera)
Nodrog Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:42 AM
When it comes to votes the grassroot members are recognized as the backbone of the party but when it comes to other matters only the Working Committee stooges have the ultimate say with no regard for the grassroot members
Aristotle Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:21 AM
Not sure of what you mean by "ordinary members". The man on the street has rejected RW. If this was another country, the leader of party having lost a string of elections would have resigned.
Dayan Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:59 AM
However the government is more democratic than todays UNP.
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