The President asks Basil to return immediately
Friday, 14 September 2012
The President had on the 10th informed Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who left for the US leaving the Eastern provincial Council election campaign without telling anyone, to return to the country.
Attempts by the President to resolve the issue of forming the Eastern Provincial Council through his confidential finance secretary, MP Sajin Vass Gunawardena had failed.
The President had said that no one possessed the ability to resolve such issues like Basil and had asked his secretary to immediately ask Basil to return to the country to resolve the issue over appointing the chief ministers for the Eastern and North Central Provinces.
Basil had told his friends that the President had realized his importance and had returned to the country on the 12th.
