UNP leader calls for interim constitution

Leader of Opposition , Ranil Wickramasinghe , reiterated that a political solution to the national ethnic issue should be incorporated in the constitution ,and the President must be should be responsible to Parliament. But, now, the Parliament is reduced to a joke, he said.
He called for an interim constitution enshrining these provisions until a new constitution is drafted.

While emphasizing the need for a small Cabinet of Ministers based on traditional Sri Lankan values, he said, Late Dudley Senanayake insisted that political and economic freedom must be the right of every citizen.

The vote base of the UNP rose during Dudley’s time, and now it is strongest, he asserted.