Death threats to Karu; Dullas gets excited 

 Feb 11, 2016

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya says he has received death threats from MPs of the so-called joint opposition. He said so in parliament yesterday (10). The speaker went onto say that he would not be frightened by these death threats. He asked opposition MPs not to issue such threats to other officials in parliament.

Rising up after the speaker made the statement, Matara district UPFA MP Dullas Alahapperuma said if the speaker has been threatened thus, a special investigation should be carried out to find out those who had threatened him. If those persons were not found, the blame will be on us, he said.

MP Alahapperuma has so become excited due to a remark he made in Matara recently. He told a meeting there, ‘If you cannot do the speaker’s job properly, give it to a child.” At another meeting, he said that if his group was not recognized as an independent opposition group in parliament, they would disrupt parliamentary proceedings.

Making the remark true, the so-called joint opposition disrupted parliamentary proceedings two days ago. The garrulous MPs in the group used filthy language to abuse the speaker, such as ‘Balla, Booruwa and Demala.’ This lowly conduct was evident not just from the new MPs, but also from the senior MPs like Dinesh Gunawardena, who represent parliament since 1983.