{"id":154314,"date":"2026-01-25T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154314"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:15:46","slug":"speaker-interdicting-deputy-secretary-general-of-parliament-without-hearing-sets-dangerous-precedent-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/01\/25\/speaker-interdicting-deputy-secretary-general-of-parliament-without-hearing-sets-dangerous-precedent-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker interdicting Deputy Secretary General of Parliament without hearing sets dangerous precedent: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Speaker of House, Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne interdicting the Deputy Secretary General of Parliament and Chief of Staff, Chaminda Kularatne from his post, allegedly without even giving a hearing sets a dangerous precedent, the Leader of Opposition, Sajith Premadasa has stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposition Leader Premadasa noted that in any democracy, officials are given a hearing before they are punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident related to the removal of Deputy Secretary General of Parliament from his post is very concerning and makes it feel very personal in nature, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X (formally Twitter), Opposition Leader Premadasa said he will strongly register his protest in Parliament pertaining to the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Secretary General Chaminda Kularatne was suspended with effect from Friday (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to suspend Kularatne, was taken by the Parliament Staff Advisory Committee (SAC), chaired by Speaker of House Jagath Wickramaratne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision is reportedly linked to certain alleged irregularities concerning his appointment to the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Speaker of House, Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne interdicting the Deputy Secretary General of Parliament and Chief of Staff, Chaminda Kularatne from his post, allegedly without even giving a hearing sets a dangerous precedent, the Leader of Opposition, Sajith Premadasa has stated. Opposition Leader Premadasa noted that in any democracy, officials are given a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvp-anti-national-activities","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154314","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=154314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154315,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154314\/revisions\/154315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}