Sri Lanka's main opposition coalition partner slams Opposition Leader

The Democratic Peoples Front (DPF), a constituent party of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) led coalition UNF, has informed Opposition and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe that there is no need for any meeting with him regarding the issue over national list members appointed to parliament.



DPF Leader Mano Ganeshan in a letter addressed to Wickremasinghe yesterday said, "No more personal meetings are necessary with you as we are convinced that you have deceived my party and the Tamil people. And we consider the national list dispute over."

Ganeshan had made this statement in a brief letter to Wickremasinghe in response to his letter on May 10. Wickremasinghe had sent a letter to Ganeshan prior to his departure to India.

According to Ganeshan, the DPF entered the presidential and general elections under the UNF and alleged that the UNP changed the tone and nominated its own men and changed its tone after the election.

"It is a betrayal and breach of general understanding," he has said.

Ganeshan has also charged that this was an act against the Tamil people and that the DPF would make known its stand publicly next week.