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

The Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Colombo· 25 November 2025 ·Procedural: Procedural: Privilege Matter and Standing Orders Discussion

Law & OrderJustice & Human Rights
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Sajith Premadasa rejected accusations that he had lied and maintained that he was stating the truth. He criticized the summoning of journalists to the CID over their reporting, describing it as unacceptable, and urged that such actions be stopped.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 I am trying to state the truth. Give me an opportunity. Give me the final 30 seconds. I must say this. I was accused of lying. I did not lie. I told the truth. Today, journalists who reported the truth are being summoned to the CID. It is disgraceful, despicable. This is a low act. I urge that such actions not be pursued.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Tuesday, 25 November 2025 ·No. 22979 ·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/16567

Cite as: The Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 November 2025. No. 22979. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/16567