Ratgama SLFP organizer Amarasiri Kuruwage said the people,
electoral organizers and provincial councilors of Galle would make a related request to the president.
Kuruwage has told the media that Gamage had been treated unjustly during the previous regime, although he stood by the party during difficult times, including in 1989, and gave leadership to the district politically and development-wise.
Will accept, if given
Meanwhile, Gamage said the courts had given him justice, and vowed to serve Galle and the country as an MP, and minister, if given the responsibility, as he had done previously.
He was speaking to journalists after the Supreme Court upheld a decision that Kumarasinghe was not qualified to hold an MP position due to her dual citizenship,
A vice president of the SLFP, he said he had no intention of allying with the joint opposition.
While Kumarasinghe polled 63,955 votes at the last general election to take the fifth position in the UPFA list of candidates, Gamage received 47,248 votes to be the seventh.
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