Ranil’s National List appointment a ploy to divide Opposition: SJB

It is impossible to become Leader of the Opposition without the backing of 60 members of the government benches.

SJB MPs Manusha Nanayakkara and S. M. Marikar alleged that former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's appointment to Parliament as a National List MP was a pact struck with the UNP to enable the administration divide the opposition.