{"id":151365,"date":"2025-08-14T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151365"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:10:06","slug":"jaffna-district-mp-to-complain-to-geneva-against-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/14\/jaffna-district-mp-to-complain-to-geneva-against-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"JAFFNA DISTRICT MP TO COMPLAIN TO GENEVA AGAINST SPEAKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202508\/1755173988_8865983_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"JAFFNA+DISTRICT+MP+TO+COMPLAIN+TO+GENEVA+AGAINST+SPEAKER\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Share Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramanathan Arjuna, an independent Member of Parliament for the Jaffna District, has announced that he will file a complaint against the Speaker with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on August 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to MP Arjuna, the Speaker has disabled his microphone for eight days without any reason, interrupting his speeches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that interrupting his speech without cause for several days is a serious offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also mentioned that he intends to file a complaint with the Geneva Human Rights Council regarding this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP claimed that for 78 days, he was not given the opportunity to speak in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes that denying him the chance to speak on behalf of the people of the Jaffna District is a severe injustice to his constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Share Post Ramanathan Arjuna, an independent Member of Parliament for the Jaffna District, has announced that he will file a complaint against the Speaker with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on August 21. According to MP Arjuna, the Speaker has disabled his microphone for eight days without any reason, interrupting his speeches. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151365","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=151365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}