Sri Lanka's Opposition today submitted a no-confidence motion against the People'sAlliance Government which lost its majority two days earlier.
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said the motion, with signatures from members ofhis United National Party and Tamil parties, was presented to the Secretary General thismorning, ahead of a crucial meeting with President Chandrika Kumartunga later today.
The motion will have to be included in Parliament's order paper first and thereafter,floor leaders will have to agree on a date for the debate.
The UNP's motion does not as yet have the support of even the Sri Lanka MuslimCongress, which set off the controversy by walking out of the ruling coalition, and theMarxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
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Meanwhile, Kumaratunga is scheduled to meet Wickremesinghe in what is ostensibly adiscussion on the stalled peace process involving the LTTE, but speculation is rife thatshe may moot the idea of a national government to tide over the crisis gripping the PAGovernment that was elected last October.
Wickremesinghe himself was non-committal, saying he believed that the meeting was onlyabout the peace process, and did not want to speculate on a possible suggestion from thePresident for a national government.
PTI
