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Sri Lanka Opposition nominates candidates for provincial council Chief Minister posts

21.6.2008

Sri Lanka Opposition, United National Party yesterday decided to nominate retired Major General Janaka Perera and film producer and tutor Upul Shantha Sannasgala as the chief ministerial candidates for the two Provincial Councils at the forthcoming polls.

UNP has decided to name Sannasgala as the Sabaragamuwa chief ministerial candidate while Major General Perera was nominated for the North Central Province.

A party spokesman confirmed that the UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe had last evening informed the party’s Political Affairs Committee about the decision.


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