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Senathirajah throws his hat into ring to be next chief ministerial candidate
By Dinasena Ratugamage
Former TNA MP Mavai Senathirajah yesterday said that he will be the party’s next chief ministerial candidate for the Northern Provincial Council. He made this declaration addressing the media at the ITAK office in Jaffna.
“There are several names, but they have been proposed by some people who live in Colombo and come here occasionally. People in the North are not supportive of any of them.”
Senathirajah said that former Northern chief minister C.V. Wigneswaran was campaigning for a Hindu priest to be the chief ministerial candidate. “But the chief minister is not a position for a ‘holy man’. This is a job that requires tough decision making. As a political figure you will have to be in protests, confront the police and spend time in jail.”
The former TNA MP said that the TNA had decided to make him their chief ministerial candidate. He said that the party wanted him to contest for the post in 2013 but he had allowed Vigneswaran to contest. “Nothing productive was done during Wigneswaran’s tenure. I have been doing politics for a long time. I have been with the people and I have a lot of support. So, this time around, I will compete.”
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Hon. President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies to instruct the legal draftsman to prepare a bill to amend the Employees’ Trust Provident Fund Act No. 46 of 1980 enabling to provide health insurance similar to Agrahara health insurance to private sector employees.
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The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural affairs to sign a cultural cooperation agreement between the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. (The draft agreement has received the clearance of the Attorney General and the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Mrs. Eleonora Dimitrova, Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, met President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat on Monday (06), before departing for her home country upon completing her tenure in Sri Lanka.
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