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SJB to become a green party from March 03
Ranawaka a notable absentee
By Akitha Perera
Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday said that starting from March 03, his party would be converted into a green party.
Addressing a Working Committee meeting at the party headquarters at Pitakotte yesterday, the Opposition Leader said that the SJB would be turned into an environmentally friendly political entity.
No common candidates would be backed hereafter and a programme would be introduced to strengthen the party’s vote base, Premadasa said, adding that there were enough examples of the failures and losses due to the practice of fielding common candidates.
It was also decided to hold the first annual convention of the party at Hyde Park in Colombo on March 15.
Although it had been expected that Patali Champika Ranawaka would be given a party position at yesterday’s working committee meeting, Ranawaka was neither present nor such a position given, party sources said.