A special Party Leaders' meeting to discuss the current situation of the country will be held virtually via Zoom at 3.00pm today (11).
The meeting had been scheduled to be held in Parliament physically but Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said last night that it had been cancelled owing to safety concerns of MPs.
However, it has now been decided to hold the meeting as scheduled in a virtual setting.
Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) General Secretary and MP Jeevan Thondaman took to Twitter last night calling for the party leaders' meeting to be held virtually. He was supported by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran.
Parliament is due to convene on May 17.
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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