The Hon. Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe, Attorney-at-Law
The member argued that recent cooperative election results indicate declining support for the Government and challenged it to hold Provincial Council elections, criticizing references to pending delimitation as a delaying tactic. He used a supermarket analogy to question the Government’s capacity to manage supplies and governance, saying essential items were lacking and warning of failure.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 No, it is already finished. You came to power through cooperatives; you will go home the same way. In recent cooperative elections, in a southern area, the Government got only 15 out of 80; the Opposition got 60 to 70. You yourselves said cooperative polls are the pulse. Now you have seen the pulse. Hold Provincial Council elections if you can. Yesterday you said delimitation is pending and slipped away. There will be elections in March — then we will see your work.
¶ 02 People now understand. You scolded me for saying I would hand over a supermarket and put Mr. Handunneththi as cashier — that upset him. I gave it as an example. I too worked in a 7-Eleven in the US — nothing shameful. If you run a supermarket, you must stock 100 items; you have 15. No sugar, no flour; the supermarket will go bankrupt.
¶ 03 Hon. Speaker
¶ 04 Hon. Member, you have another two minutes.
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