UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa issued a statement requesting former party General Secretary Tissa Attanayake to rejoin the party.

Issuing a statement, Premadasa invited everyone who left the party for various reasons in the recent last, to rejoin him to strengthen the party.

Attanayake defected to the Rajapaksa camp just weeks before the last Presidential election.

The statement comes amidst a heated crisis within the UNP over the presidential candidacy.