Ranil stops obliteration of old structures in City

PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested the Urban Development Authority (UDA) to quit obliterating old structures in Colombo City. Mr Wickremesinghe identifying with the media subsequent to visiting Colombo City today said he had done as such as the arrangement of the new government was to safeguard the old structures in Colombo and repair them while keeping them as they were. Nonetheless, he said, open doors would be given to speculators to open new lodgings in the city - with regards to the approach of President Maithripala Sirisena.
"Colombo was a celebrated city previously, and the goal of the new government is to bring back this radiance,'" he said.



Alluding to the political circumstance, Mr. Wickremesinghe said he had chosen to go in for a joint government with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) regardless of an offer by some SLFPers to traverse and empower him to shape an UNP government keeping in mind the end goal to achieve another political society.

 He said previous president Mahinda Rajapaksa had likewise respected an UNP in addition to SLFP government. He guaranteed that a little while later equity would be finished by those UNPers who made a penance to frame a joint government. "Uniting the UNP and SLFP is the initial move towards transforming the entire of parliament into one administration," he said, indicating out that he had made such a guarantee before the decisions.