Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha
Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha argued that, under Westminster parliamentary practice followed in Sri Lanka, the UK and India, No-Confidence Motions against Deputy Ministers are procedurally valid. He questioned the Government’s handling of allegations against the Deputy Minister of Defence relating to the Easter attacks, noting his former role as Eastern Commander, and called for him to address Parliament on national security. He also urged the Government to uphold parliamentary propriety by replacing the current Defence Minister if necessary.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, we follow the Westminster tradition, as do the UK and India. There are many examples of No-Confidence Motions concerning Deputy Ministers in those Parliaments as well. The Deputy Minister of Defence faces serious allegations regarding the Easter attacks. Let him come and speak on national security. But those events occurred when he was an Eastern Commander. If the Government does not follow tradition and if you are being pressured, and if you will not show us the Secretariat’s determination, that is a problem. If the Government wants to preserve propriety, remove the present Defence Minister and appoint someone else. With 159 Members, what are you doing?
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 11 September 2025 ·No. 1758278142029989 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/1057
Cite as: Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 September 2025. No. 1758278142029989. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/1057