සටහන : හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි 2018 11 14 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මන්ත්‍රීතුමා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද යෝජනාව විශ්වාස භංග යෝජනාවක් නොවේ. එහි ඇත්තේ ජනාධිපති තුමා විසින් පනවන ලද ගැසට් නිවේදන ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී හා නීති විරෝධී යැයි සදහන් යෝජනාවකි. යම්කිසි කාරණයක් ව්‍යවස්ථා  විරෝධිද නැත්ද යන්න තීරණය කිරීම පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ට බලය ඇති කාරණයක් නොව සහමුලින්,ම […]

 lanka C news පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතරය ඇත්නම් එය තමනට නියමානුකූල ආකාරයෙන් පෙන්වා සිටින්නැනි ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණ පක්ෂ නායකයන්ට පෙන්වා දී ඇත. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ අද පස්වරුවේ ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේදී එම පෙරමුණේ නායකයන් සමග පැවති පැවති සකච්ඡාවේදිය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සම්මත කළේ යැයි කියන විශ්වාසභංගය තමන් පිළිනොගන්නා බවත් ඒ වෙනුවට වෙනත් […]

ආචාර්ය චමිල ලියනගේ මේ පබැඳුම අලගියවන්න මුකවෙට්ටිතුමාගේය. කාලත්‍රය දැකීමට සමත් පඬිවරුන්ගේ සංකල්පනාවන්හි අදාළත්වය සර්ව කාලීන වන්නේය; සර්ව භෞමික වන්නේය. ලාඞකේය දේශපාලනයේ අද උද්ගත වී ඇති තත්ත්වය විග්‍රහ කරගැනීමෙහි ලා මේ සංකල්පය වෙසෙසින්ම  ගැලපෙන බව අපගේ අදහසයි. ඊට හේතුව පසුගිය 2018.10.26 දින අපේ රටේ දේශපාලනතන්ත්‍රයේ සිදුවූ අනපේක්ෂිත ‘විප්ලවයට’ පාදක වූයේ ‘නොගැලපීමක්’ නිසාය. එම පරිවර්තනය මෑත කාලීන දේශපාලනික […]

lanka C news අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඇති වූ ගැටුමට වගකිව යුත්තේ කථානායක කරු ජයසූරිය මහතා බව ඇමති දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා කියයි. කථානායකවරා පුටුවේ රැදී සිටීමෙන් මෙම නොසන්සුන්කාරී තත්වය ඇති වූ බවත් ඔහු අසුනෙන් ඉවත්ව ගියේ නම් මෙම තත්වය ඇති නොවන බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටී. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුලට එජාප මන්ත‍්‍රිවරුන් දෙදෙනෙකු තියුණු පිහි රැුගෙන පැමිණ සිටි බවද […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 15, 2018, 9:29 pm People dislike governments and politicians. In advanced democracies the public asks for less government because meddlesome politicians make people’s lives miserable. We, the inhabitants of this land like no other, are apparently without a government at present. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya declared in Parliament, yesterday, for everyone to […]

Courtesy Adaderana A special meeting was held this evening (15), between President Maithripala Sirisena, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and the leaders of all political parties affiliated with United National Front (UNF) and Tamil National Alliance (TNA). The meeting, which lasted for nearly two hours, was focused on the existing political situation of the country. According to […]

Sandun A. Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror If the UNF-led political alliance follows proper Parliamentary procedures and Standing Orders when bringing in a no-confidence motion (NCM) against the government and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the government is ready to face it and defeat it, Chief Whip and Highways Minister S.B. Dissanayake said today. He said the […]

ක්‍රිෂාන් පතිරත් ජයසූරිය උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෑත කාලයේදී ගත් තීන්දු හා තීරණ ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුකූලව නිවැරැදි ක්‍රියාදාමයන් බව එළිය සංවිධානය වෙනුවෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් එරන්ද ගිනිගේ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කරයි. ඊයේ (13දා) එළිය සංවිධානයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් ගිනිගේ මහතා මෙසේ ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. එරන්ද ගිනිගේ මහතා මෙසේද පැවසීය. “දැන් අපේ රටේ ඇති වී ඇති තත්ත්වය සමහරු අර්ථකථනය කරනවා ව්‍යවස්ථා අර්බුදයක් […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena reminded Speaker of the House, Karu Jayasuriya that on 9 January of 2015, he had appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister on the request of the United National Party (UNP), the political party the Speaker represents, even though the UNP had only 41 seats in the House. The […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 15 (newsin.asia): Opposition parties in the Sri Lankan parliament are expected to submit a fresh Motion of No Confidence (MNC) against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa soon, following an agreement they had reached with President Maithripala Sirisena here on Thursday. President Sirisena told opposition leaders who met him, that he is not […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 15 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s ousted Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Thursday reiterated that his party held a majority in Parliament as a mass political demonstration led by his party got underway in capital Colombo. Addressing the rally, Wickremesinghe said that a no confidence motion on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse which […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 14: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday refused to accept a letter sent by parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya explaining  the happenings in the House earlier in the day, according to a ruling party member Dayasiri Jayasekara. Instead, he issued a statement saying that the Speaker had flouted parliamentary procedures in getting the No […]

Courtesy Adaderana The full text of the speech made by the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in Parliament on Thursday (November 15). Let the people’s sovereignty prevail Hon Speaker, The President has explained why he dismissed the previous government and appointed an interim government until the conclusion of the next general election. By the 26th of […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE (10.56 a.m.) – Speaker Karu Jayasuriya got up from his chair and left the chamber amidst the uproar during the Parliamentary session and arguments between MPs from government and opposition. He left, without adjourning parliament, as MPs from both sides surrounded him and continued to argue and clash. The legislators refused to return […]

Courtesy Adaderana Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the Prime Minister is appointed by the President and not the Speaker and accused Speaker  Karu Jayasuriya of misusing his powers and acting in a baised manner. He also said that he does not care about the premiership and that he accepted the position to save the country from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Speaker says hereafter he will not accept any Prime Minister or Cabinet of Ministers in the parliament since a No Confidence motion had been passed yesterday (15). Speaker Karu Jayasuriya mentioned this at the parliamentary session held today (15). He says that he will not recognize all current ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mahanayake of the Asgiriya Chapter Most Ven. Warakagoda Gnanarathna Thera said on Tuesday that Western countries should not infringe on Sri Lanka’s internal matters. The prelate expressed these views when Buddha Sasana Affairs Minister Udaya Gammanpila called on the Thera. The Ven. Thera said following the change of the Government, […]

Courtesy Adaderana In a letter to the Speaker, President Maithripala Sirisena says that the Speaker of Parliament has ignored the Constitution, Standing Orders and Parliamentary traditions in passing the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister. The letter is a response to the letter and attached documents sent by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to the President regarding […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island November 14, 2018, 9:51 pm With the suspension of the gazette notification dissolving Parliament till the 7th December, the political uncertainty in the country is set to continue for three more weeks. When one looks at the petitioners who went to the Supreme Court against the President’s decision to […]

Editorial Thursday 15th November, 2018 Courtesy The Island November 14, 2018, 9:54 pm The country finds itself in a perfect mess. It has two Prime Ministers and two governments. The Speaker and the President are acting like two private bus drivers disputing the lead; they have already brought the institutions they represent—the legislature and the executive—on […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 14: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday refused to accept a letter sent by parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya explaining  the happenings in the House earlier in the day, according to a ruling party member Dayasiri Jayasekara. Instead, he issued a statement saying that the Speaker had flouted parliamentary procedures in getting the No […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 14 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka was for long a bastion of Western culture in social and political behavior. But these  markers, which distinguished it from its neighbors in South Asia for decades after independence from British rule, are fast disappearing in the political sphere. Politics in Sri Lanka is now a crass […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 14 (newsin.asia): The Speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament, Karu Jayasuriya  on Wednesday declared that a No Confidence Motion against the government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was passed in the midst high voltage commotion and confusion. There was no debate, and no vote as such was taken. But the Speaker […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 14 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s political crisis heightened further on Wednesday when ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former president Mahinda Rajapakse both claimed they would continue in government following a heated debate in Parliament earlier in the day. Hours after a no confidence motion was submitted on the floor of […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Dinesh Gunawardena today (14), said the UPFA does not accept the No-Confidence Motion of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, and the newly appointed Cabinet as a valid one, because no Motion was moved when the Parliament sitting was in […]

 lanka C news රට තුල ඇතිව තිබෙන දේශපාලන අර්බුදකාරී තත්වය ඉදිරි පැය 24 ඇතුලත නිමා වනු ඇති බව ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සදහන් කර ඇත. ජනාධිපතිවරයා අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඇති වූ සිදුවීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජෙෂ්ඨ ඇමති පිරිසක් හා අදහස් පල කරමින් මේ බව සදහන් කර තිබේ.

Courtesy Adaderana The President will take necessary constitutional steps after he receives the letter from the Speaker regarding the no-confidence motion, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

මම ජනාධිපතිතුමා ගන්න තීරණයත් ඒක්ක ඉන්නවා

Courtesy Adaderana Cabinet has decided to prepare legal draft to hold Provincial Council elections under the previous system, said Mahinda Samarasinghe. He mentioned this today (14), at the press conference held to inform the cabinet decisions. The compulsory 25% female representation will be ensured, he further said. Cabinet has also decided to provide school uniform […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Glad to see the Sri Lankan Parliament is once again fulfilling its constitutional role, US Ambassador in Sri Lanka Alaina B. Teplitz said today. The Ambassador had attended the reconvening of parliament this morning. Honored to attend the reconvening of Sri Lankan Parliament this morning to see democracy in action. Very lively but glad this […]