The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam
Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam said the seating arrangements for his party’s two allocated parliamentary seats were an internal matter and rejected concerns raised by Hon. Archchuna about Hon. Sritharan occupying a front-row seat. He then raised an issue affecting Batticaloa farmers, stating that their insurance had been suspended and that it had been announced from the 11th that no insurance coverage was available.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Please let me ask. I must also address the matter where my name was mentioned. Hon. Archchuna, regarding our party’s seats, we will manage that. Our party is entitled to two seats. Hon. Sritharan sits in one; I sit in the other. No one else needs to make an issue of it. The two seats allocated to our party have been apportioned within our party. Therefore, Hon. Archchuna need not be concerned about Hon. Sritharan having a front-row seat. That is an internal matter of our party. We are seated in the two seats allotted to our party, and there is no need for him to continue speaking on it.
¶ 02 Next, insurance for the Batticaloa farmers has been suspended. Since the 11th, it has been announced that there is no insurance.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 19 February 2026 ·No. 23328 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 February 2026. No. 23328. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/30312