UNP takes a swipe at book MS hopes to release

24 Nov, 2018

The United National National (UNP) took a swipe at President Maithripala Sirisena over a book he hopes to launch in January.

Speaking at an event yesterday the President had said that he will launch a book in January on the unsuccessful union in the coalition Government with United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.

UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, speaking at a rally in Kandy today, said that the book should focus on the actions of the President and how he disrupted the operations of the coalition Government.

“There are so many names we can give his book,”?Kariyawasam said.

He said that the UNP had done a lot when it was in the Government yet it faced issues when doing so.

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