INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena informed the parliament today (05) that it is not appropriate to summon the Opposition Leader to the
Committee on Public Finance (CoPF).The Speaker informed that the Leader of the Opposition and the Chief Opposition Whip requested a decision
from him in the Parliament Chamber on Saturday (July 01) and the Committee on Parliamentary Business held on Friday (June 30), regarding not
giving the Leader of the Opposition an opportunity to comment in the Public Finance Committee meeting held on June 29, in which the Leader
and accordingly, the positions of Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Deputy Chairperson of Committees, Leader of the House and Leader of the
a wide scope to get information about the affairs of the Committees, and as a member of the opposition party has been appointed for the
position of Chairman of the Public Finance Committee in accordance with Standing Order 121(1), the Speaker emphasized to the House that it
is not appropriate to call the persons holding the above-mentioned responsible positions so that the Chairman should provide the information
meeting in question to the Leader of the Opposition.
