Mervyn should resign like a true gentlemen - Janaka

Major General (retd) Janaka Perera yesterday called on Labour Minister Mervyn Silva to honour his pledge to resign from office if he (Perera) got even one more vote than Upali, a disabled soldier who contested the North Central Provincial Council Election on the UPFA ticket.

"Mervyn, like a true gentlemen should now go before President Mahinda Rajapaksa and hand over his resignation, since I have obtained the highest number of preference votes in the North Central Province," he told a news conference in Colombo. Mervyn Silva is an individual who received only 2200 votes at the last parliamentary elections.