Sri Lanka, Nov. 20 -- Development Strategies and International Trade Deputy Minister Nalin Bandara yesterday called on Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign as Prime Minister and also to step down from UNP leadership in the light of the heavy defeat suffered by the United National Party-led NDF candidate in the Presidential election.

Addressing a media briefing at the Development Strategies and International Trade Ministry at the World Trade Centre, Colombo, yesterday, Bandara called for "an immediate change" in the UNP leadership following the electoral defeat.

He said the UNP should immediately hand over the reins of Government to the SLPP-led coalition to enable new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint his own Cabinet and implement his p...