Sri Lanka, Aug. 25 -- Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed his party and some key opposition members that they must remain united at this moment and fight to ensure that democracy is upheld.

The Daily Mirror learns that when senior politicians had visited him at the Colombo National Hospital last morning, Wickremesinghe had stressed for unity within all opposition parties and requested all to leave aside their political differences.

A senior party source said that Wickremesinghe continued to be in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital as he was being treated for dehydration and high blood pressure. Wickremesinghe's wife, Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe who had also visited her husband in the ICU had still been ...