{"id":154446,"date":"2026-02-02T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154446"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:37:35","slug":"suspended-parliament-official-files-complaint-against-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/02\/suspended-parliament-official-files-complaint-against-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Parliament official files complaint 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\/202602\/1770030894_6190886_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Suspended+Parliament+official+files+complaint+against+Speaker\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Suspended Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Chaminda Kularatne, arrived at the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to lodge a formal complaint against the Speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on behalf of Kularatne, Attorney Mithun Dias told the media that the complaint is not a general move against the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he claimed the action stems from a personal dispute involving his client, who remains under suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer further stated that the complaint submitted to the Bribery Commission includes specific allegations regarding the Speaker&#8217;s anti-corruption activitie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Suspended Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Chaminda Kularatne, arrived at the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to lodge a formal complaint against the Speaker. Speaking on behalf of Kularatne, Attorney Mithun Dias told the media that the complaint is not a general move against the government. Instead, he claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-jvp-anti-national-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154446","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=154446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154447,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154446\/revisions\/154447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}