United National Front will be contesting as an alliance of minority parties led by Trio Leadership like trident (Thrishulaya ) comprising Ranil Wickremasinghe International leader, Karu Jayasuriya Sinhala Buddhist community leader and Sajith Premadasa the leader of rural masses .
The overall leadership of the Alliance will be vested in Speaker Karu Jayasuriya who has leadership qualities necessary for a person to successfully lead a nation. He also proved his mettle during the October 2018 government fiasco.
Accordingly Ranil Wickremasinghe will be holding on to the position of UNP leader for some time, party stalwarts said.
A leader ship council will be established to support the efforts of Trio Leadership in carrying out country wide election campaign spearheaded by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa .
The new look UNF with a powerful trident will pose a great threat to new interim government turning the local political arena up side down, UNP senior member said.
The UNF was of the view that it is difficult for the party to form a government if the party is divided through internal clashes, under cutting and carrying tales by interested persons, he said.
All UNP second tier leaders, party stalwarts and youth leaders should join hands with Trio leadership of Ranil Wickremasinghe Karu Jayasuriya and Sajith Premadasa in carrying out a vigorous election campaign using modern propagation campaigns and electioneering .
The UNF will have to fully concentrate on election media campaign using print electronic and social media in an unprecedented manner, a UNP stalwart who took part in former President J.R Jayawardena’s victorious election campaign in 1977 said.
(LI)