As stated in these columns earlier the Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP)’s solitary Muslim provincial councillor Najeeb Abdul Majeed elected on the United Peoples Freedom Alliance(UPFA)ticket from Trincomalee district will be the first Muslim Chief minister of the Eastern Province.
Najib will be both the first Muslim Chief minister of the East as well as the first ever Muslim Chief Minister in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile United People Freedom Alliance decided to grant two ministries for SriLanka Muslim Congress which supports the UPFA to hold governance in the eastern province.
Former Eastern Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan and the Wimalaweera Dissanayake would be appointed as provincial ministers.
The National Congress(NC) and All Ceylon Muslim Congress (ACMC)led by cabinet ministers AHM Athaullah and Rishad Badiutheen will not be given any ministerial posts. Instead the Provincial council chairman and deputy chairman posts will be given to them.
However party sources stated SLMC among the Ampara district candidates M.Mansoor, A.M.Jameel and the Batticaloa district member Habiz Nazeer Ahamad two of them would be name as the provincial council ministers.
SriLanka Muslim Congress opposed to appoint Chief Minister from the National Congress and All Island Muslim Congress. | 
President Rajapaksa after discussing matters with some ministers and influential Parliamentarians has decided upon a formula to appoint the new chief minister for the Eastern province and also allocate provincial ministry and chairman,deputy chairman posts.
Russia decided to donate 8 helicopters to SriLanka. [
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Tamil Genocide attack day commemorated at Queens Burg city in Toronto, Canada. [
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Thousands of Tamil national present at the Mulliwaikal mourning organized by the British Tamil Forum. [
Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by the navy in February, are scheduled to be returned to their home country from Colombo around Sunday noon. [
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [