Speaker announces name of members appointed to National Council

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Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana today announced the appointment of members to the proposed National Council.

The Council is headed by Speaker himself, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardene, Leader of the House Susil Premajayantha, Chief Government Whip Prasanna Ranatunga, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella.

The members nominated from parties include Douglas Devananda, Nazeer Ahmed, Tiran Alles, Sisira Jayakody, Sivanseathurei Chandrakanthan, Johnston Fernando, Rauff Hakeem, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Vajira Abeywardana, L. Digambaram, Mano Ganesan, Udaya Gammanpila, Rohitha Abeygunawardene, Jeevan Thondaman, G. G. Ponnambalam, Ven. Attureliye Ratana, Asanka Nawaratne, Ali Zabry Raheem, C. V. Vigneswaran, Weerasumana Weerasinghe, Sagala Kariyawasam, Namal Rajapaksa and Rishad Bathidudeen.

The Speaker said these members have been named by their respective political parties.

Accordingly the Jathika Jana Balawegaya, TNA and the independent group led by MP Anura Yapa have not named members to the council.

The Executive Committee has the power to call up reports from cabinet Ministers, Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), Public Finance Committee and new committee which are to be appointed including ways and means committee, Committee on economic stabilization.

The committee has jurisdiction to determine the general priorities of Parliament, to guide the formation of short, medium and long term national policies and to agree on a short, medium and programs to stabilize the economy. (Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)

Comments - 6

Common sense Friday, 23 September 2022 01:17 PM

TNA should join and ask for greater autonomy to North and East. Implement 13A amendment as PROMISED by the pakshe.

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sam Friday, 23 September 2022 01:18 PM

What is the contribution expected from criminals and the uneducated?

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Reformist Friday, 23 September 2022 03:09 PM

Looking at the list, all we can say is good luck! Useless of the useless. You don't need to be an Enstein to work out why SL is a basket case. It will continued to be for another 500 years!

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ravin Friday, 23 September 2022 04:27 PM

Let's be realistic. First of all purpose of this council? " Executive Committee has the power to call up reports from cabinet Ministers, Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), Public Finance Committee and new committee which are to be appointed including ways and means committee, Committee on economic stabilization" . Secondly vary high analytical skills on given each instances. Last but not least How many out of above passed through their O/L , A/L, under graduate ship so on and so forth. Will these appointees serve the purpose what they intended to do?

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Athk69 Friday, 23 September 2022 09:40 PM

Blind leading the blind... no disrespect meant to the actually blind human beings... The council must comprise academics, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and realists who are sensitive to the current predicament and those with a conviction to drive positive change. And not the named of those who stood by and did nothing to save Sri Lanka from its current predicament.

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Analytical skill? Out of stock. Friday, 23 September 2022 11:28 PM

Every party leader wants blind followers, who will not rock the boat by asking questions. So, it is Blind leading the Blind; This is how they pass bills in parliament, including the one that gave GOTA unlimited power, which was the cause for his down fall. Who needs analytical skill? The little we see of parliament proceedings on TV is ample proof of the capacity of these babbling parrots.

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