COLOMBO : The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday finalised its national list nominees while arriving at a compromise with the minority parties, sources said.
They include Party Secretary-General Ranjit Madduma Bandara and National Organiser Tissa Attanayake.The sole woman in the list is actress and lawyer Diana Gamage who is also the party’s Deputy General-Secretary.
Those included in the SJB national list are, SJB General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara, National Organizer Tissa Attanayake, Harin Fernando, Eran Wickramaratne, Imtiyaz Bakeer Markar, Mayantha Dissanayake and Diana Gamage.
“We have arrived at a compromise with the minority parties with regard to the national list slots,” sources added.
Former Western Province Governor and Leader of the National Unity(NUA) was promised a slot in the list for his conditional participation in the SJB election campaign. He was one of those, who campaigned steadily in the Eastern Province as an effective speaker in Tamil, Majority of the Muslims in the province voted for SJB at the recent polls.