The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri
Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri complained that his earlier parliamentary questions, numbered 1–10 and relating to alleged major frauds including the bond and garlic scams, had not appeared on the Order Paper, while later questions had been listed. He said Members had not been informed that those questions were removed and requested that Opposition questions on fraud and corruption be placed on the Order Paper in due course, noting the Government’s stated anti-corruption stance.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Please let me finish. When Questions 1–10 don’t come, but 12, 13 appear on the Order Paper, we thought after three or four months the earlier questions would appear. They haven’t. We haven’t even been informed that Questions 1–10 were removed. Those initial questions concern major frauds—garlic scam, bond scam, etc. We suspect, as the last Government avoided inconvenient questions by pressure, this cannot happen now because this Government spoke loudly against corruption. Yet my Questions 1–10—on the bond scam, garlic scam, and others—alone are not on the Order Paper. If we in the Opposition ask about fraud and corruption, they should be placed on the Order Paper in due time.
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Cite as: The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 14 March 2025. No. 1744281136023320. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26413