The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Ravi Karunanayake raised a procedural concern that senior ministers were absent to answer parliamentary questions despite Members shortening their questions to facilitate timely replies, and asked the Speaker to address this. He also noted that a question he submitted to the Prime Minister on the 17th anniversary of Lasantha Wickrematunge’s assassination had been declined on the basis that the matter was sub judice.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, as you said, decorum must be observed. Under your leadership, when we speak, we shortened our two-page Questions to one page to enable answers even the same day. Yet no senior minister is here to answer. Please ensure this is addressed. I have also submitted another Question to the Prime Minister regarding the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge 17 years ago; I lodged it on the 29th seeking an answer tomorrow. The reply I received from Parliament is that the matter is sub judice.
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 January 2026. No. 23111. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17617