Founder of the SLPP, Basil Rajapaksa, had reportedly held urgent talks with leaders of the SLFP on 21 April, as part of a well coordinated programme initiated by the SLPP to sort out internal political wrangling among its coalition members.
SLFP Leader MP Maithripala Sirisena, SLFP General Secretary State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera, Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva, Mahinda Amaraweera and Suren Raghavan attended this discussion with Rajapaksa.
During the discussion the SLFP members had highlighted the failure of SLPP top brass to accommodate SLFP activists at grassroots level, especially its LG members in the various development programmes being initiated at district level.
Rajapaksa had then urged SLFP Minister Mahinda Amraweera to submit proposals from his party on this and promised that he will look to accommodate SLFP members in future without any undue advantage to the SLPP.