Govt will survive: Lanka president

President Maitripala Sirisena while expressing “confidence” that the government would remain in office till 2020, said whoever who wants could leave but he would carry on with the government that is there. “It is not me but the SLFP parliamentary group that is in the government.Although some say their party would form a government on their own soon; under the current composition of parliament no single party can form a government on its own.Even if there is another coalition, I will fulfil my responsibilities towards the people as president of the country until the end of my term,” he said.He told Media Heads and Newspaper Editors at the President’s House that the SLFP Central Committee had resolved to take a decision on the future of the agreement between the SLFP and the UNP in December and therefore it was improper to talk about it beforehand.Answering a question, the president said the SLFP had not proposed him as the next presidential candidate and he too had not said anything of the sort.He said there were some such views expressed by various people but no final party decision yet. Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake said he would make a statement in Parliament next week regarding the statement made by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) that it will take legal action against him.He told Daily Mirror he would request the speaker to summon BASL officials to parliament. “I will also raise a privilege issue in the house and will request the speaker to summon officials of BASL,” he said.The deputy minister said he had received plenty of information on various malpractices by judicial officers and lawyers and would produce them in the courts in the event BASL took legal action against him. He said he was ready for a legal battle with the BASL. –Courtesty dailymirror.lk