10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Colombo· 17 June 2025 ·Procedural: Procedural: Israel-Iran Conflict Discussion and Ministerial Statement on Energy

Parliamentary Procedure
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Hon. Sajith Premadasa objected that the Chief Opposition Whip was not being given the same opportunity to raise points as the Chief Government Whip. He raised a procedural concern about equal treatment of government and opposition representatives in parliamentary proceedings.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 But you do not allow the Chief Opposition Whip to present points similar to those allowed to the Chief Government Whip.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Tuesday, 17 June 2025 ·No. 1750929357043199 ·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/14657

Cite as: Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 June 2025. No. 1750929357043199. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/14657