The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake objected that he had been prevented from raising a question on power generation aimed at reducing electricity bills for 600,000 consumers. He contrasted this with time being allowed for discussion of an allegedly irrelevant fertilizer supplementary matter, and said Members were seeking answers to urgent public issues rather than questioning the Chair.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Allow me to ask this. Mr. Speaker, we are not here to question you; we ask for answers to burning public issues. I intended to ask regarding power generation to reduce electricity bills for 600,000 consumers but was blocked. Yet seven minutes were allowed on a fertilizer supplementary that was not relevant.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 5 February 2026 ·No. 23269 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2026. No. 23269. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12948