The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has entrusted the campaigning for the forthcoming election to the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha to its national organiser Basil Rajapaksa.
Party sources said he would be assisted by parliamentarians Ramesh Pathirana, Mohan de Silva, Chandima Weerakkody, former MP Geetha Kumaratunga, former provincial councillors Chumly Withanachchi, Dushan Kariyawasam and Saman Athukorale.
(Daily Mirror)