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President requests not to organize special events for his first anniversary
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reportedly decided to forgo special ceremonies to celebrate his first anniversary in office as the Head of State.
Accordingly, he has given instructions to respective officials not to organize any official events at the expense of the public in celebration of the first year of his appointment to office.
The directives were given after taking into account the requests made by several officials to organize functions to mark the anniversary.Wickremesinghe was elected the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka to serve the remaining term of his predecessor, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after receiving 134 votes during a division held in the 225-member parliament on July 20, 2022. He was then sworn in on July 21.
According to reports, the president has sternly refused the proposals mooted by officials to organize ceremonies to celebrate the event, stressing that such events should not be organized using public or private funds at a time when the country is recovering from the economic crisis.Meanwhile, the president is scheduled to visit India on July 21 on an official visit.
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to set up a Leadership Board (High Posts Committee) for the United National Party (UNP) to produce future leaders.
President Wickremesinghe told a gathering of party seniors last week that he took this decision to produce second-tier leaders as he is not able to spend much time on party affairs due to the many duties of the Presidency.
The President told party seniors that the decision to appoint this Leadership Board will be taken so that there will be no unnecessary problems regarding the future leadership of the UNP. The President said that by appointing a Leadership Board with equal powers, real leaders can come forward and those who cannot serve as leaders will have to retreat.
A resolution in this connection will be adopted at the Party Convention due to be held by mid August this year.
A raid carried out by the Special Task Force led to the detection of 20,000 liters of artificial toddy in the Aluthgama police area today.
Four suspects including the owner of two locations where artificial toddy was being prepared were arrested by the STF.
The items used for the production of the toddy was detected.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India from July 20-21 will witness the signing of five agreements that will have a substantial impact on both countries.
The confirmation was made by Indian High Commissioner, Gopal Baglay, during his meeting with the President’s Chief of Staff, Sagala Ratnayake.
The Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra also informed Ratnayake about these agreements during their interaction in Colombo recently. These agreements will foster and strengthen the friendship between India and Sri Lanka, and promote economic cooperation between the two nations.
