Tag: Sri Lankan Parliament

Colombo: A majority of Sri Lankan legislators on Thursday voted in favour of a special motion presented to Parliament to halt the finances provided to the Prime Minister’s office amid the current political instability. A total of 123 legislators out of the 225-member Parliament voted in favour of the motion which was presented by Ravi […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Parliament was disrupted for the second day on Friday with MPs allied to disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa throwing chilli powder at opposing MPs and hurling chairs at police officers even as the Assembly passed another no-confidence motion dismissing his government for the second time this week. The pro-Rajapaksa legislators also threw […]