It is reported that the MPs of the Sri Lankan freedam Party, which holds the majority of the United People’s Freedom Alliance, are pressuring to the fprmer prasident , Maithripala Sirisena, to remove former M. P. Thilanga Sumathipala from the position of Secretary General of the United People’s Freedom Alliance.
Even now, its former Secretary General Mahinda Amaraweera has filed a case in court against Thilanga Sumathipala’s work as the General Secretary of the United Lanka Freedom Alliance. A related injunction has also been imposed. But the media had reported that Thilanga Sumathipala, who recently went to the headquarters of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, forcibly took some files belonging to the United People’s Freedom Alliance there.
According to political sources, the functioning of the United People’s Freedom Alliance is facing a crisis in the face of the current crisis in the SLFP.