(Lanka-e-News-08.March.2012, 7.30PM) A Secretary of Kudu Duminda Silva , the M P who is incriminated in a murder charge had made a request to the Speaker of Parliament to extend Duminda’s leave for a further period of three months. The SLFP M Ps are in bitter resentment and have expressed opposition to this matter being taken up as an urgent motion in Parliament to grant the leave.A secret ballot is likely to be conducted on the 9th in the face of this opposition , according to Govt. sources.
A report confirming that Duminda Silva cannot be made to recover fully into his former mentally condition issued by the medical specialists in Singapore was forwarded to the courts recently . It was the view of SLFP Gen. secretary Maithripala Sirisena that in the circumstances , what should be done is not granting leave to Duminda , but rather give the opportunity to Chandana Kathriarachi who is next in the preferential vote list to be sworn in as M .P. The President who had strongly opposed this move of Maithripala , had hastened to instruct the Secretary of Duminda to send a letter to the Speaker of Parliament to immediately grant the requested leave to kudu Duminda. Accordingly, a letter has been sent to the Speaker , and an urgent motion to grant leave is to be tabled in Parliament on the 9th.
The grave issue besetting the President’s bizarre request among others is , how is it possible for Duminda to request the Secretary to ask for leave extension when it was confirmed by his own medical specialists to the sacrosanct courts that he is not in a fit mental condition? Either he has told a lie to the courts , or the Parliament is being made to bluff. It is the opinion of a majority of the SLFP parliamentarians to hold a secret ballot and defeat this proposal.
The SLFP M Ps are most disgruntled and angered because of the President’s eagerness to grant leave extension to a mental patient kudu Duminda the prime suspect in the multiple murder of Bharatha Lakshman and three others, while deliberately postponing indefinitely the allocation of a day of mourning in Parliament for Bharatha Lakshman a SLFP stalwart who was the victim in the tragedy.
The SLFP M Ps are most disgruntled and angered because of the President’s eagerness to grant leave extension to a mental patient kudu Duminda the prime suspect in the multiple murder of Bharatha Lakshman and three others, while deliberately postponing indefinitely the allocation of a day of mourning in Parliament for Bharatha Lakshman a SLFP stalwart who was the victim in the tragedy.
