The JVP side was represented by a team led by Jinadasa Kitulegoda.

However, Somawansa had steadfastly refused to rejoin the party.

After leaving the JVP, he formed the People’s Servants Party.

However, unable even to pay rent for the party office at Temple Road, Pitakotte, he gone to a relative’s place with his bag of clothes, in the party member Wijesinghe’s motor cycle.

After his death, several leftist parties had tried to claim the body, but the remains were given to a relative on a court order.