Kumaratunge is already a patron of the SLFP.

However, the former President has expressed her severe displeasure in being appointed to a committee that includes former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The advisory committee aimed re-organising the SLFP is led by President Maithripala Sirisena and includes two former Presidents Kumaratunge and Rajapaksa as well as two former Prime Ministers Ratnasiri Wickremenayake and D.M. Jayaratne.

Kumaratunge according to reports had been angry and declared she was not willing to serve on a team where there were “********”.

Afterwards, she had left for the UK.