Select Committee doesn’t care two hoots for Opposition proposals : Sambandan refused medical leave – full report herein
(Lanka-e-News- 06.Dec.2012, 4.30AM) A most deplorable and reprehensible situation was created when the Select Committee impeachment inquiry met yesterday(05) in the absence of the chief justice (CJ) , because the Govt. group completely ignored the proposals of the opposition representatives.
Yesterday’ s sessions commenced at 10.30 a.m. with Chairman Anura Priyadharshana Yapa taking the lead. The first item in the agenda was the request made by the opposition representatives to postpone this meeting during the vacation period of the Parliament from Dec. 8th to Jan. 8th 2013 .Usually it is Parliament tradition that after the budget , the Parliament members and staff get a month’s holiday, and therefore they requested to put off the Select Committee sessions during that period .
TNA leader senior politician , R .Sambandan said he has personal reasons to support this request as he has to take medical treatment. But the Govt. representatives behaved most despicably and barbarically in order to primarily fulfill the agenda of the brutish Rajapakses , thereby disregarding the Committee requirements and requests. These Govt. representatives openly and shamelessly demonstrated they are indeed puppets of the regime , and stated , as a member of the select Committee one cannot seek to use it for personal purposes.
Despite the opposition group insisting again on having the sessions uninterruptedly ,after the holiday recess, (Dec. 8th to Jan. 8th) , the Govt. members stubbornly declined . Finally, after disdainfully throwing away the opposition members’ request , the Govt. group decided to hold the sessions during the vacation.
Chairman Yapa said , after the 8th of December , approval will be obtained by passing a resolution in parliament regarding the sessions.
*Later , the Govt. representatives distributed files containing copies of the evidence pertaining to the impeachment charges to all the members. As we pointed out in our previous reports about the gross irregularity resulting from the inquiry Committee members undertaking to furnish the evidence instead of the plaintiff , akin to the mockery Kekille court , so the Inquiring Committee members took upon themselves today the task of distributing the evidence record files , clearly demonstrating the travesty of justice that was being played out by the Govt . members in the Select Committee proceedings directed against the chief justice via the impeachment process. The justice being made its very travesty by the Govt. was most unwelcome and shameful.
In the files distributed , there were the Bank statements , assets and liabilities statement , the Judicial service Commission (JSC) report etc. However there were no evidence in full relating to the charges . As evidence , what was produced were only reports of the Rivira newspaper which is run and maintained on the President’s finances.
The opposition members naturally had cause to question , why, aren’t there other media ? Another issue that was raised by the opposition was about the veracity of the contents of these files. There were no certification that the contents of the files were true. Yapa replied , they have been certified by the relevant depts., and if the CJ’s lawyers question on this , the chiefs of these Depts. can be summoned to testify. These files are to be handed over to the lawyers of the CJ after she arrives for the Select Committee meeting tomorrow at 2.30 p m.
*The issue that sprung up yesterday that this select Committee has no methodology to carry on its functions again surfaced today. There was no consensus arrived at on this matter . This means that the select Committee proceedings hitherto inquiring into the impeachment motion has been without a methodology like its Govt. members without mental abilities , and will necessarily continue sans method or sane minds ( Govt. members) hereafter.
Meanwhile the posting of the news regarding the Select Committee proceedings by the websites had become a hot theme of discussion. This issue was raised first by Rajitha Senaratne.
It was the stance of the opposition members that the proceedings should be conducted in an atmosphere of transparency, and in reply to Rajitha , the opposition asked, was it not Minister S B Dissanayake who held a media briefing following the first session of the Select Committee , and revealed everything? In any event , the Chairman of the Committee decided to complain to the speaker. The select Committee proceedings concluded at 12.05 p.m. yesterday.
Since the Govt . representatives were not paying any heed at all to any proposal advanced by the opposition members , the UNP members who had discussions regarding this with the opposition leader stated they want to resign from the Committee. But some others said this is not the opportune moment for that.
Yesterday’ s sessions commenced at 10.30 a.m. with Chairman Anura Priyadharshana Yapa taking the lead. The first item in the agenda was the request made by the opposition representatives to postpone this meeting during the vacation period of the Parliament from Dec. 8th to Jan. 8th 2013 .Usually it is Parliament tradition that after the budget , the Parliament members and staff get a month’s holiday, and therefore they requested to put off the Select Committee sessions during that period .
TNA leader senior politician , R .Sambandan said he has personal reasons to support this request as he has to take medical treatment. But the Govt. representatives behaved most despicably and barbarically in order to primarily fulfill the agenda of the brutish Rajapakses , thereby disregarding the Committee requirements and requests. These Govt. representatives openly and shamelessly demonstrated they are indeed puppets of the regime , and stated , as a member of the select Committee one cannot seek to use it for personal purposes.
Despite the opposition group insisting again on having the sessions uninterruptedly ,after the holiday recess, (Dec. 8th to Jan. 8th) , the Govt. members stubbornly declined . Finally, after disdainfully throwing away the opposition members’ request , the Govt. group decided to hold the sessions during the vacation.
Chairman Yapa said , after the 8th of December , approval will be obtained by passing a resolution in parliament regarding the sessions.
*Later , the Govt. representatives distributed files containing copies of the evidence pertaining to the impeachment charges to all the members. As we pointed out in our previous reports about the gross irregularity resulting from the inquiry Committee members undertaking to furnish the evidence instead of the plaintiff , akin to the mockery Kekille court , so the Inquiring Committee members took upon themselves today the task of distributing the evidence record files , clearly demonstrating the travesty of justice that was being played out by the Govt . members in the Select Committee proceedings directed against the chief justice via the impeachment process. The justice being made its very travesty by the Govt. was most unwelcome and shameful.
In the files distributed , there were the Bank statements , assets and liabilities statement , the Judicial service Commission (JSC) report etc. However there were no evidence in full relating to the charges . As evidence , what was produced were only reports of the Rivira newspaper which is run and maintained on the President’s finances.
The opposition members naturally had cause to question , why, aren’t there other media ? Another issue that was raised by the opposition was about the veracity of the contents of these files. There were no certification that the contents of the files were true. Yapa replied , they have been certified by the relevant depts., and if the CJ’s lawyers question on this , the chiefs of these Depts. can be summoned to testify. These files are to be handed over to the lawyers of the CJ after she arrives for the Select Committee meeting tomorrow at 2.30 p m.
*The issue that sprung up yesterday that this select Committee has no methodology to carry on its functions again surfaced today. There was no consensus arrived at on this matter . This means that the select Committee proceedings hitherto inquiring into the impeachment motion has been without a methodology like its Govt. members without mental abilities , and will necessarily continue sans method or sane minds ( Govt. members) hereafter.
Meanwhile the posting of the news regarding the Select Committee proceedings by the websites had become a hot theme of discussion. This issue was raised first by Rajitha Senaratne.
It was the stance of the opposition members that the proceedings should be conducted in an atmosphere of transparency, and in reply to Rajitha , the opposition asked, was it not Minister S B Dissanayake who held a media briefing following the first session of the Select Committee , and revealed everything? In any event , the Chairman of the Committee decided to complain to the speaker. The select Committee proceedings concluded at 12.05 p.m. yesterday.
Since the Govt . representatives were not paying any heed at all to any proposal advanced by the opposition members , the UNP members who had discussions regarding this with the opposition leader stated they want to resign from the Committee. But some others said this is not the opportune moment for that.
