SPEAKER TO PRESENT COMMITTEE REPORT- PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said Speaker Karu Jayasuriya will present the report of the committee he appointed to look into the recent unruly incidents in the House during the next Parliamentary week.

Mr. Wickremesinghe

Those days a Member of Parliament was regarded as one of the best professions in the country

said it is essential to stop incidents such unparliamentarily behaviour which should not happen in institutions like this.

“Those days a Member of Parliament was regarded as one of the best professions in the country,” PM Wickremesinghe said these addressing an event in Galle yesterday.

Why are we allowing the respect of our profession to diminish? The Premier questioned.