She told Parliament that the claims made by the NPP members and some of the officials were false and that her privileges were violated. She said it was disrespectful to the Kandy district voters who vote for her.
The matter is to be presented to the Speaker for necessary action.
The COPE meeting was told that a 43-acre plot of land in the Hanthana estate was released to Ms Kiriella in a manner that bypassed the provisions of the Land Reforms Act.
The meeting was attended by officials from the Land Reforms Commission (LRC) where the LRC Director General Padmasiri Liyanage stated that the Commission was under no legal obligation to release any land to Kiriella.
Officials claimed that the land, located in Hanthanawatta and belonging to the Janatha Estate Development Board, was released to her outside the provisions of the Land Reform Act.
The Director General of the Land Reform Commission, addressing the committee, stated that the land was originally allocated to her by the Janatha Estate Development Board and that the Land Reform Commission had no obligation to provide her with land.
It is up to the COPE now to prove it.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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