{"id":147858,"date":"2025-02-07T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147858"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:18:55","slug":"ravi-tables-motion-to-abolish-mps-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/07\/ravi-tables-motion-to-abolish-mps-pension-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi tables motion to abolish MPs\u2019 pension scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Democratic Front (NDF) MP Ravi Karunanayake has tabled a Private Members\u2019 Motion in Parliament today (7), seeking the abolition of the pension scheme for Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing Parliament, MP Karunanayake stated that a certain political party had manipulated public opinion on this issue, portraying it as a betrayal of society, which in turn has damaged public trust in MPs. Therefore, he brought this motion to restore public confidence, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the need to rebuild trust in elected representatives, highlighting that MPs serve to represent the will of the people and must prioritize public needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db8 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd4\u0db4 \u0d85\u0dc4\u0ddd\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1... \u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dde\u0daf\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dba\u0ddd\u0da2\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca - Ravi Karunanayake\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Q30vbe0QLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am presenting this proposal to eliminate the social opposition that exists. If we do not change this, Parliament will simply become like a municipal council. Over the past few years, this has created a detrimental situation for the country. As we work towards creating a new political culture, we have all come together to determine whether we will create a problem for ourselves or build more trust in society,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana New Democratic Front (NDF) MP Ravi Karunanayake has tabled a Private Members\u2019 Motion in Parliament today (7), seeking the abolition of the pension scheme for Members of Parliament. Addressing Parliament, MP Karunanayake stated that a certain political party had manipulated public opinion on this issue, portraying it as a betrayal of society, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}