This step is seen by political sources as one towards laying a friendly atmosphere for the meeting that takes place today between president Sirisena and his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa.

A group of SLFP MPs has asked the president to abolish the gazette extraordinary that announced the setting up of this police division.

They have claimed the FCID has been formed without making a proper study in advance.

Unconditional

However, the president’s media unit says today’s meeting between Messrs. Sirisena and Rajapaksa will focus on the SLFP, and nothing about the government will come up.