Former Minister Dullas Alahapperuma asks PM & Cabinet to resign
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Former Sri Lanka media minister and senior government member Dullas Alahapperuma on Friday (22) called for the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the cabinet of ministers to make way for an all-party interim government.
In his two-page letter, the former minister stated that a small cabinet representing all parties in parliament should be appointed for at least one year period in order to find the immediate solution to the current crisis situation.
While praising the President for appointing a cabinet with a majority of young MPs, the former Minister said that the decision could have taken much earlier and now it too late.
Alahapperuma noted that a small Cabinet of Ministers, with the representation of all political parties in the parliament, needs to be appointed for a period of at least one year.
“We must realise at least at this last burning second that every week this decision is delayed, the country’s future and stability is ruined for years,” he said.
Invoking the motto of President Rajapaksa’s and Alahapperuma’s alma mater Ananda College, the Matara district MP said: “Appamado amatha padam (doing without delay). The will of the people is that we shall act now without delay.
