Shan Wijelal de Silva, the Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, states that today the current President Ranil Wickremesinghe has the place that Mahinda Rajapaksa had in the hearts of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna members.
He said that it is the Podujana Peramuna who are struggling to make Ranil Wickremesinghe president today, rather than the United National Party, and the hope of that group is that Ranil Wickremesinghe will come to power. The President said this while addressing a public meeting held in Ambalangoda