Mr. Speaker [The Hon. (Dr.) Jagath Wickramaratne]
Parliament was informed that Hon. Mohamed Sali Naleem had resigned as a National List Member of Parliament for the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress in order to contest the 2025 Local Authorities Election, creating a vacancy in the Tenth Parliament. The Chair also clarified, based on a Table Office report, that Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri’s questions for oral answers had been listed in the order submitted and that the related allegations were baseless. Members were notified of scheduled meetings of the Committee on Parliamentary Business and the Committee of Selection, and amendments to the proposed alterations in the Legends of Draft Estimates 2025 were tabled.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 The Parliament met at 9.30 a.m., Mr. Speaker in the Chair.
¶ 02 Announcements
¶ 03 Resignation of Hon. Mohamed Sali Naleem, Member of Parliament
¶ 04 I wish to inform Parliament that a letter of resignation has been handed over to the Secretary-General by Hon. Mohamed Sali Naleem, Member of Parliament, and that thereby a vacancy has occurred in the membership of the Tenth Parliament. The letter will now be read by the Secretary-General.
¶ 05 Whereupon the Secretary-General read the following letter: “15.03.2025 Secretary General, Parliament
¶ 06 Resignation from the Position of Member of Parliament - I. S. Naleem (National List, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress)
¶ 07 I hereby tender my resignation as a Member of Parliament, as I intend to contest the Local Authorities Election in 2025.
¶ 08 Please accept my resignation accordingly.”
¶ 09 Order of Listing Questions for Oral Answers in the Order Paper
¶ 10 With regard to the matter raised on 2025.03.14 alleging that the questions for oral answers submitted by Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri had been listed in the Order Paper without regard to sequence, I wish to clarify that I called for a report from the Table Office. According to that report, the questions of the Hon. Member have been included in the respective Order Papers in the exact order in which he submitted them. Therefore, the allegations regarding the listing of questions for oral answers are baseless, and I inform the House that the questions of all Hon. Members are included in the Order Paper in a fair manner and in the order in which they are submitted.
¶ 11 Meetings of Committee on Parliamentary Business and Committee of Selection
¶ 12 I wish to inform all Hon. Members that today, Saturday, 15th March 2025, at 11.00 a.m., a meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business, and immediately thereafter a meeting of the Committee of Selection, are scheduled to be held in Committee Room No. 28. Members are requested to attend.
¶ 13 Papers Presented
¶ 14 Amendments to the List of Proposed Alterations in the Legends of Draft Estimates - 2025 submitted on 27th February, 2025. - [The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya] Ordered to lie upon the Table.
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