The Hon. D. V. Chanaka
D. V. Chanaka rejected allegations relating to a 2018 wedding, stating that any security lighting for presidential protection was generator-powered and paid for, and noting that he only became a Deputy Minister in September 2022. He argued that the previous administration took office amid severe power cuts and fuel queues and later returned state institutions to profitability, and defended the President’s use of the term “papisi.”
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Chairperson, briefly: I became a Deputy Minister in September 2022; the wedding you mention was in 2018. Those “security lights” for the President’s protection were run on a generator and fully paid for. We took over a country with 16-hour power cuts and fuel queues. We handed institutions back as profit-making entities. The President calling “papisi” is justified.
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Cite as: The Hon. D. V. Chanaka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 November 2025. No. 22934. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/4433