The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake denied that his side had agreed to make a public apology and rejected allegations of discrimination against Tamil, Sinhala, or Muslim people. He said any Privilege issue raised by the Member should be investigated through proper procedure, and requested that the Secretariat inform the Chair if such a complaint had been submitted.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 We are not aware of such a thing. We have not wronged anyone to make any public apology. Please let me speak. Sir, let me be clear. We have not said we will make any public apology to anyone. He is shouting here for his political aims. We have no discrimination between Tamil, Sinhala, or Muslim people. Not only him; for anyone’s Privilege issue, we will appear. You may recall, when we saw in the papers that he clashed with the Police and was remanded, I first informed you even before he spoke.
¶ 02 This is a serious matter. We need minimum decorum in this House. Do not tell lies saying we apologized publicly. Why should we apologize for what he does? If he has raised any Privilege issue, please investigate it.
¶ 03 If such a Privilege issue has been submitted, the Secretariat should inform the Chair.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 8 May 2025 ·No. 1748426168056758 ·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/21853
Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 May 2025. No. 1748426168056758. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/21853