JHU Warnasinghe is architect of his own misfortune: loses his ministry post in WPC !

(Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2016, 10.00AM)  Western provinical council (WPC) member and JHU media spokesman Nishantha Warnasinghe has been divested of his ministry in  the council , and the chief minister of the council Isuru Devapriya has been  appointed to that post. Devapriya took his oaths as the  new minister before the Western province governor K.C. Logeshwaran , at his office yesterday(30). 

It was Nishantha Warnasinghe who was the WPC minister of health, indigenous medicine , social welfare ,probation, child protection service and women’s affairs   . At the Council’s last budget when the voting was carried out on   his ministry’s expenditure allocation , it was defeated by around 40  votes with both  the  UNP and SLFP voting  against it. This is an index that both parties personally opposed  Warnasinghe’s arrogance and actions. 

The post was allocated  to Warnasinghe by the president , and it was with the consent of the UNP. This was because, although  Warnasinghe was appointed to the WPC under the UPFA , he later  sought parliamentary elections under the UNP.

Based on this ,  Warnasinghe ought to have received the votes of both the UPFA and UNP, but because of his high handed actions and bombastic utterances , both the UNP and SLFP personally resented him. One key contributory factor for his downfall was , Warnasinghe issuing applications for low rung posts in hospitals only to the JVP ers , and ignoring the requests made by members of the other parties.

At the WPC members’ meetings , Warnasinghe represented the UPFA ,and at  those meetings he made arrogant  comments that he is not a slave of any party . It is learnt that this led him to his fall from grace   when the vote was taken on  the budget expendure allocations . Although the UNP leader made requests to the other UNP members to extend support to Warnasinghe’s budget expenditure allocation , none of them were present to vote in its favor. 

It is the rule that after the budget expenditure allocation of a  ministry of the PC is defeated ,that minister cannot function any longer in that post. Warnasinghe is the first provincial council minister in Sri Lanka who lost his ministry post  because his  budget expenditure allocation was defeated, and set a record. 

According to PC rules and regulations , if the budget of one ministry is defeated , it is tantamount  to defeat of the  entire PC budget .Therefore a fresh  budget must be  presented and passed . If that does not materialize, from 1st January  2016 , no  disbursements can be made to any Institution coming under that PC .After the chief minster taking over Warnasinghe’s post yesterday , arrangements are  under way to present a new budget and get it passed.

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