For one of the 16 SLFP MPs who voted for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the National New Year celebrations were in New York.
He boasted to his friends there that he told President Sirisena he was leaving for the US and he had replied “gihilla hondata avurudu kaala enna” or go and enjoy Avurudu and come back.”
One of those who heard the man said that the MP was a lucky man. He is a Green Card holder in the US, perhaps the only one who could sit in Opposition benches or in a lovely mansion in New Jersey.
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.
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.
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