Four including Ministers and an MP who did proud for SL in the sporting field are to quit the Govt. ranks and are ready to support Gneeral Sarath Fonseka for the upcoming elections.

It is learnt that the President who was having discussions with several persons at the Temple Trees yesterday night (2) , had given out the names of the persons with much disappointment. It is also reported that those in high places of the Govt. have been instructed to closely monitor their activities . movements and their phone call conversations.


Sources also say that Kurunegala Municipal Council Deputy Mayor Asoka Abeysinghe is to join the UNP in the next few days, and that he has met UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday night (2).

Rumors are doing the rounds that Kurunegala District UNP M.P. is to join the Govt. In that event Abeysinghe has been promised immediate appointment as the Organizer for that District ,the UNP M P now represents.