UNP eroding under Ranil - Gunasekara

Asela Kuruluwansa

Whatever guerrilla outfits are formed in the UNP, its leader Ranil Wickremesinghe cannot prevent further erosion of the party and more members leaving its ranks in the future, said Plantation Industries Deputy Minister Earl Gunasekara. He said in another four years the UNP parliamentary group will be reduced to a twosome with only Ranil and Tissa remaining in it.

Gunasekara said there was no one who could beat Ranil Wickremesinghe in guerrilla tactics. Ranil was so adept in guerrilla tactics that he had already declared Sirikotha as a no go zone for 28 party activists.

Gunasekara who said another group of UNPers were waiting on the wings to cross over to the government during a future election, said guerrilla forces or any other tactics would never succeed in presenting the erosion and dissipation of the UNP. He said opposition within the UNP towards Ranil Wickremesinghe’s leadership could never be overcome or controlled by using catchwords such as ‘radical’ or ‘guerrilla’.