They are Austin Fernando (east), P.B. Dissanayake (north central), Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake (north western), Marshall Perera (Sabaragamuwa), M.P. Jayasinghe (Uva) and K.C. Logeswaran (western).

Since their terms are for five years, their removal has become a difficulty.

Of them, Dissanayake, who is 74 years of age, fainted at a national elders’ day ceremony in Anuradhapura and had to be hospitalized.