evidence: All political parties that supported United National Party Leader and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, at the recent Presidential Election, are to contest the upcoming General/Parliamentary Election under the New Democratic Front (NDF), with the ‘Gas Cylinder’ as their symbol. Wickremesinghe had also contested the recent Presidential Election under the symbol of the ‘gas cylinder’, albeit as an independent candidate. Political sources said on Wednesday (2) that former Parliamentarians who supported Wickremesinghe are preparing to contest the upcoming Election under either the ‘Elephant’ symbol or another common symbol if they were unable to obtain the ‘gas cylinder’ symbol. It was reported that the opinion of the Election Commission had been sought to obtain the ‘gas cylinder’ symbol and that a final decision was to be taken after the Commission’s decision was conveyed. The group of former MPs had gathered at the Election operations office of Wickremesinghe at Flower Road in Colombo on Wednesday, to reach the final decision regarding the symbol and the alliance that they will contest under in the upcoming election.