Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader Udaya Gammanpila yesterday threatened to take legal action if JVP parliamentarian Vijitha Herath is not removed from the Constitutional Council.from the members of the Constitutional Counsil.

Addressing a media briefing, Gammanpila stressed that Herath cannot be accepted as the representative of the minor parties in the Constitutional Council.

The representative of the minor parties should be decided by MPs who do not belong to the Prime Minister's party and the Opposition Leader's party, argued Gammanpila. If there are more than one name proposed, these MPs can decide on whom to be appointed, he added.

"If we get to know the name of our representative in the Council through media, where is the democracy," Gammanpila asked.

Furthermore, he vowed to take legal action against President Maithripala Sirisena and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya if they fail to remove Herath and let the MPs decide on their representative.