15 September 2020 05:48 am
UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the party working committee that he is willing to resign from the leadership at any moment, party sources said.
According to sources, Mr. Wickremesinghe has said this in response to a few members of the working committee who had said the party should not suffer any more over leadership struggles.
“Mr. Wickremesinghe was responding to the working committee members and highlighted that the party should be reorganised before handing over to a new leader. The party has to be reorganised either from top to bottom or from the bottom to the top,” a source said.
The Daily Mirror learns that new officer bearers will be appointed at the next working committee meeting while the new leader will be appointed by next year. Newly elected Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene also confirmed that new officer bearers would be appointed soon while the new leader will be appointed in a few months. (Yohan Perera)