report in The Sunday Morning, Dec 17, 2023Several key officials, including President’s Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayaka, currently serving at the Presidential Secretariat, are set to be removed from their current positions to join President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s upcoming Presidential Election campaign, according to sources within the Presidential Secretariat. The names of the key officials to be appointed to fill the vacancies remain undisclosed. Changes in the President’s official staff are anticipated as the campaign gears…
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by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, June 7, 2023**Claims construction of places of worship continuing with Army, Buddhist clergy involvementWhile President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Department of Archeology to stop new acquisitions of lands in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, and the construction of Buddhist shrines in those areas, the Department is yet to take a final decision on the matter while other parties allegedly continue with such activities together with the Army and…
report in The Island, May 23, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has indicated that he has no trust in the Cabinet of Ministers, and therefore he should dissolve Parliament and let the people choose their representatives so that a new Cabinet could be appointed, says SJB MP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar. Speaking to journalists over the weekend, Bakeer Markar said that President Wickremesinghe had told Cabinet secretaries that there was no further need for them to submit Cabinet…