The General Secretary of the party, Tissa Attanayake presented the set of proposals and MP Wijedasa Rajapaksa explained the proposals to the party membership.
All party members sans one person voted for the new constitution, UNP sources said.
The chairman of the party constitution reform committee MP Joseph Michel Perera explained the future programme of the party and invited Sajith Premadasa to lead the party jointly with the present leader Ranil Wickremasinghe.
Sajith Premadasa, the charismatic UNP MP from Hambanthota district who is gaining popularity among the party members as an effective leader said the change has come to the party. "Let's begin a new era," he said.
Premadasa said his ambition is to lead the party towards victory with everyone's support and urged the members to commit themselves to break free from the defeated mentality and direct the party towards victory.
UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe said that the party would be taken forward safeguarding party discipline.
The party had been plagued with internal disputes over Wickremasinghe's leadership and the grand old party has failed to secure a victory in any of the polls, provincial or general, held within the last 9 years.
In October a group of 25 UNP parliamentari [...]
