10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. Ajith P. Perera

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Kalutara· 28 November 2025 ·Debate: Motions at Commencement of Public Business - Emergency Response Coordination

InfrastructureLaw & OrderSecurity & Defence
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Hon. Ajith P. Perera raised an urgent matter concerning a bus with about 70 passengers stranded on the Kalawewa bridge on the Anuradhapura–Puttalam road, noting that approval for a helicopter rescue had not yet been granted and calling for immediate Government intervention. He also highlighted severe weather conditions, including a red alert in Kalutara District and heavy rains in Ratnapura, and requested special attention to relief efforts in Kalutara where floodwaters remained stagnant in several DS divisions.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, there is an emergency. A bus with about 70 passengers has been stranded for one and a half hours on the Kalawewa bridge on the Anuradhapura–Puttalam road. Approval for a helicopter rescue has not yet been granted. This is serious. I urge immediate Government intervention. Also, the Kalutara District is under red alert; Ratnapura had heavy rains last night. Please pay special attention to relief in Kalutara where water remains stagnant across many DS divisions.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Friday, 28 November 2025 ·No. 23026 ·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/5054

Cite as: The Hon. Ajith P. Perera. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 28 November 2025. No. 23026. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5054