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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Parliament Adjourned Until This Friday

Parliament Adjourned until 10.30 a.m

on this Friday (21).

Parliament had been convened this noon under the patronage of Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri .

New Cabinet Of UNF Government To Be Sworn In Tomorrow (20)?

The new Cabinet of the United National

Front (UNF)government comprising of 30 Ministers due to be sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena tomorrow (20)morning according to sources.

As the Cabinet scheduled to be appointed accordance to the 19th Amendment of the Constitution should be restricted to 30 members ,Some of the former Ministers of good governance government including Malik Samarawikrama, Thilak Marapana ,Mano Ganeshan and Rishad Baduideen have informed the Prime Mimister Ranil Wikramasinghe they will not seek any Cabinet Post.

Eallier Premier Wikramasinghe has informed UNF MP 's that as the New Cabinet should be comprising of 30 members anyone can voluntarily withdraw from Cabinet .

A 19 Year Old Motorcyclist Had Been Critically Injured Due To Motorcycle -Bus Collision

A 19 year old Motorcyclist had been

critically injured and hospitalized after the Motorcycle he was riding in colliding with a Bus at Madapola area in ThelDeniya last evening (18).

The critically injured Motorcyclist had been admitted to ThelDeniya Hospital for treatment and later admitted to Kandy Teaching Hospital for further treatment .

The incident occurred when the Motorcycle attempted to overtake a Three Wheeler and as a result the Motorcycle collided with the Bus arrived from the opposite direction .

ThelDeniya Police have arrested the Bus driver over the incident.

There Are Two Opposition Leaders In Parliament -TNA Leader Sampanthan

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader

and Opposition Leader R.Sampanthan and TNA MP M.A SumanthIran had today (19)stated in Parliament that now there are two opposition leaders in Parliament as Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has yesterday (18)informed the house he will accept Mahinda Rajapakshe as opposition leader.

Speaker has made this remark without removing him from Opposotion Leader posto MP Sampanthan has stressed. Therefore there are two opposition leaders now he has said .

TNA MP M.A SumanthIran has said Mahinda Rajapakshe is not even a MP as he has taken the membership of Podu Jana Peramuna (Flower Bud symbol )on 11 th of November by showing three news reports on that .

As Former President Rajapakshe has contested from United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and elected to parliament, when he got a members hip of a Party which not even represent the Parliament, his MP Post will be abolished accordance to the 99 (13)article of the constitution MP has stressed.

However UPFA MP Susil Premjayantha has said Former President Rajapakshe is still got the membership of UPFA and therefore the speakers decision to appoint him as opposition leader is a correct decision.