President walks away,the discussions between Alliance and JHU unsuccessful
The arranged discussion between the President,his team and the JHU Members was held at 5 pm on the 21st instant at Temple Trees.At the beginning the Alliance was represented by Ministers Basil Rajapaksa,Susil Premajayantha and Dullas Alahapperuma as reported by Ravaya newspaper.Later President had joined.
However after 20 minutes when the subject of the new proposals was spoken with President by Omanthe Sobitha thera and Athureliye Rathana Thera.Then the President had said there is no time to make constitutional changes at this period of time without putting him into a mess, propose it for the next presidential election and had walked away.This was also reported by the Ravaya newspaper.