The Hon. Sunil Watagala, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Sunil Watagala challenged claims made by the Opposition, alleging they were spreading falsehoods about a legal case filed at the Labour Tribunal. He acknowledged that the case did not succeed, but questioned why damages would have been paid if the case had been lost and asked for clarification on what was actually paid and where any such adverse judgment existed.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 They are telling blatant lies here.
¶ 02 The nature of the Opposition is exactly that. They throw a blatant lie here and run. They drop it and run. I only asked a very simple question.
¶ 03 It is true that the case we filed at the LT did not succeed.
¶ 04 All right, if the case was lost, what happened then? If the case was lost, why pay damages? What has actually been paid?
¶ 05 Where has a case been lost? There is no such lost case. You can state it.
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- Hansard, Friday, 20 February 2026 ·No. 23331 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Sunil Watagala, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 February 2026. No. 23331. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/30042