The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake objected to the removal of his Motion from the Order Paper after it had been listed for about a year and discussed by the Committee on Parliamentary Business, arguing that this was done without his knowledge and violated his privileges. He also sought to refer to a Supreme Court Determination under Article 123 concerning the 2009 Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill, linked to a petition by Hasan Ali, Dood Senadhiraja, Mangala Samaraweera and Wimal Rodrigo.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, this Motion has been on the Order Paper for a year and was discussed at the Committee on Parliamentary Business about two weeks ago. It has appeared regularly on the Order Paper. Without my knowledge it has been removed at the last moment, violating my privileges.
¶ 02 Further, there is a Supreme Court Determination related to the 2009 Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill in response to a petition by Hasan Ali, the late Dood Senadhiraja, the late Mangala Samaraweera and Wimal Rodrigo. May I cite that Determination: “Determination in terms of Article 123 of the Constitution is inconsistent...”—
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 October 2025. No. 22640. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/13915