The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa – Minister of Health and Mass Media and Chief Government Whip
Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa framed the debate within the Government’s broader effort to address what he described as a national calamity, identifying the drug menace as a serious threat requiring unified action. He indicated that he would present arrest and case statistics from 1 January to 21 October 2025 compiled by the Police and security forces to demonstrate the scale of the issue.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, at a time when the Government is uniting the entire country to embark on a program to rescue the nation from the present national calamity, we are having this debate. To show how serious the drug menace is, let me present a few statistics from January 1 to October 21 this year regarding arrests and cases by Police and security forces.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 23 October 2025 ·No. 22641 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa – Minister of Health and Mass Media and Chief Government Whip. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 October 2025. No. 22641. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/8010