Bandula, Dullas and Thondaman also reject cabinet posts

Former Minister of Mass Media Dullas Alahapperuma says he will not accept a position in the new Cabinet of Ministers. In a twitter message posted today, the SLPP parliamentarian said he believes that a government consisting of all the political parties represented in Parliament will be the best option at this critical juncture.

I believe a government consisting all parties in Parliament will be the best option at this critical juncture. Gunawardena said he further requested that a new Cabinet of Ministers consisting of no less than 15 young, educated, efficient ministers be appointed as the previous Cabinet has already resigned.

In addition to this, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) and former State Minister of Estate Housing & Community Infrastructure, Jeevan Thondaman says that he too will not be taking up any Cabinet ministry. He stated that upon his resignation as a state minister, he had communicated to the ruling party that he will not be taking up any portfolio “till solutions are provided and changes are made”.

“However, it is also my responsibility to deny the claims of, me, taking a cabinet ministry as I have communicated, upon my resignation as a state minister, to the Ruling Party that I will not be taking up any portfolio till solutions are provided and changes are made.”