(Lanka-e-News -05.Sep.2015, 4.40PM) ‘Who are party leaders ? Will the 100 days interim govt. distortion be continued with the new parliament ?’ Lanka e news questioned in its report on 31 st August under this caption . The present parliament has finally converted this issue into a non -issue by clearing the doubts once and for all.
Until the advent of the 100 days interim government , only party leaders proper who contested parliamentary elections were considered as ‘party leaders’ and not those who signed agreements forming alliances outside the parliament.Accordingly , only the party , in the name of UPFA that contested elections as a single party , and only its representative can be recognised as a party leader , and not those leaders of parties who signed pacts with the UPFA .This misleading precedent and cardboard ‘party leaders’ were created during the 100 days interim government by none other than speaker Chamal Rajapakse and the pro Rajapakse regime government.
However in the best interests of the country and parliamentary traditions , this misleading precedent was eliminated by a decision taken during the party leaders meeting chaired by speaker Karu Jayasuriya , whereby the cardboard party leader masqueraders cannot now any longer wear that mask and dupe the parliament or people.
Accordingly , the present parliament reckons as party leaders only the leaders elected at the last general elections as parliamentary members of the following recognised parties:
UNP United National Party
UPFA United people’s Freedom Alliance
TNA Tamil National Alliance
JVP Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna
SLMC Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
EPDP organization
Wimal of the National Freedom Front, Gammanpila of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya , Dinesh of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna , Gajadeera of the communist party , and Vasudeva who contested under the betel symbol of the UPFA , in the circumstances will not be entitled to sit in the front row , as they are not any longer ‘party leaders’ proper.They are also divested of the parliamentary privileges attaching to them as party leaders.
According to parliament standing order 23 , a party leader has a parliamentary privilege to make a special announcement pertaining to a subject concerning a matter of national importance. Now, that privilege no longer applies to Wimal , Vasu, Gammanpila, Dinesh and others of that pseudo party leaders’ group. Even the time allocation for their speeches must be obtained from the UPFA leader ,if not , from the opposition leader Sampanthan or from the chief opposition whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake out of the opposition time allocation, after discussing with them.
In addition when discussions are held pertaining to decisions among party leaders on parliamentary affairs , the leaders of the aforementioned masquerading group cannot participate.
One M.P speaking to Lanka e news inquired from us whether this was divine retribution that is visited on these evil thinking ‘manimals’ and inhuman racists , Wimal , Gammanpila and Dinesh who do not treat humans as humans simply because they belong to a race different from theirs.
Wimal and his clan hitherto who ‘congregated’ (formed groups) in the office of the leader of the house and government party organzation office for their selfish self propulsion , do not now have the opportunity to ‘congregate’ in the opposition leader’s office, the opposition chief whip’s office or anywhere in parliament , perhaps will have to congregate now at Abhayarama , the M.P. pointed out to Lanka e news.
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Way to go. Solid positive start to rid the Governing House from miscreants.yes, have systems in place and pave the way for smooth sailing in "Good Governance" as per LAW.
-- by Brian Perera on 2015-09-05