The Hon. Aravinda Senarath
Aravinda Senarath stated that public land had been misallocated in some cases to political associates and that lease revenues from such projects had been neglected despite the public bearing indirect taxes. He said the Government is enforcing the law against defaulters, initiating recovery of arrears, and will take lawful action regarding a sub-lessee ordered to vacate in 2018 who has appealed.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Member, not only have lands been lost to the public through such dealings for political associates, but lease revenues too have been neglected. While this is not universal, many such cases have been reported. When people suffer indirect taxes, revenue from such projects was ignored. We are now enforcing the law against such defaulters and have initiated processes to collect arrears. This sub-lessee was ordered in 2018 to vacate; he has appealed. Considering all, we will take lawful action and recover dues.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 5 February 2026 ·No. 23269 ·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/12958
Cite as: The Hon. Aravinda Senarath. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2026. No. 23269. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12958