There was an open deliberation on the post of resistance pioneer subsequent to both the TNA and the UPFA group which is against the national government were requesting it.
The Speaker declared today that the UPFA has not made any official solicitation for the post of Opposition Leader.
The TNA, which holds 16 seats in parliament, was requesting the post subsequent to the UNP and the SLFP went to a consent to frame a national government.
Be that as it may, 55 UPFA MPs as of late asked for President Maithripala Sirisena to arrangement Kumara Welgama as the Opposition Leader.
Rajavarothiam Sampanthan was conceived 5 February 1933. He is the child of A. Rajavarothiam, Superintendent of Stores at the Gal Oya Project. Sampanthan is identified with S. Sivapalan and N. R. Rajavarothiam both of whom were MPs for Trincomalee. He was instructed at St. Patrick's College, Jaffna, St. Anne's College, Kurunegala, St. Joseph's College, Trincomalee and St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa. After school he joined Ceylon Law College, graduating as a lawyer at law
Sampanthan was the TULF's hopeful in Trincomalee at the 1977 parliamentary decision. He won the decision and entered Parliament.[8] Sampanthan and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the center of 1983 and Sampanthan relinquished his seat in Parliament on 7 September 1983.
Sampanthan was one of the ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF partnership's competitors in Trincomalee District at the 1989 parliamentary decision yet the union neglected to win any seats in the area.
On 20 October 2001 Sampanthan turned into the pioneer of the recently framed TNA. Sampanthan challenged the 2001 parliamentary race as one of the TNA's applicants in Trincomalee District. He was chosen and re-entered Parliament following a nonappearance of 18 years.
