<span style="color: #222222;">Sri Lanka's parliament has been convened today following Supreme Court decision to stay President's Gazette for dissolution of parliament and holding of early elections. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The three-judge bench headed by chief justice gave its ruling this evening on petitions against the President Maithripala Sirisena's Gazette to dissolve parliament. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The court has put an injunction on gazette till  7th of December and will hold further hearings from 5th December. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The court also ordered the Elections Commission to halt preparations for the general elections scheduled for January 5th. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">United National Party (UNP) led by ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe welcomed the decision terming it as the end of the coup. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Wickremesinghe said in a message that the people have won their first victory. He said the order shows President is not above law and can't play around with constitution. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Wickremsinghe said, Parliament will reconvene tomorrow and he will show his majority in the house. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Parliament was to convene tomorrow before it was dissolved by the President last Friday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Namal Rajapaksa, MP and son of new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his reaction said, the court's decision is only an interim order and not final decision while another minister said the case is still on and they are confident that dissolution will be upheld. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The political crisis in Sri Lanka began when the President appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa as new Prime minister replacing Mr. Wickremsinghe. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He followed it with the prorogation of Parliament and finally with dissolution. </span><br />''