SLPP MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena appointed COPE chair
COLOMBO — Ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena was appointed chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and MP Lasantha Alagiyawanna, chair of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) on Thursday (7), Parliament sources said.
New MPs nominated to the COPA include Tissa Attanayake, Kabir Hashim, Niroshan Perera, J. C. Alawathuwala, Ashok Abeysinghe, Sivagnanam Shritharan, Hector Appuhamy, M. Udayakumar, Weerasumana Weerasinghe and Dr. Harini Amarasuriya.
Meanwhile, MPs Anura Dissanayaka, Rauff Hakeem, Dilan Perera, Dayasiri Jayasekara, Eran Wickramaratne, Nalin Bandara Jayamaha, S. M. Marikkar, Hesha Withanage, Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam, Gamini Waleboda and Prof. Charitha Herath have been nominated to serve in the COPE.
SLPP MP Ranjith Bandara previously held the COPE chairmanship.
Separately, on the heels of Abeygunawardena’sappointment as COPE chair, Opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam tweeted that MP Abeygunwardena had tried to assault him.
“MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena tried to assault me in Parliament a short while ago. This happened in the Prime Minister’s office within the Parliament complex. I have raised a privilege issue and am concerned for my safety as he has threatened to assault me outside Parliament as well,” Rasamanickam said.
“I have alerted the speaker of this incident today. This is not the first time where I have been threatened by SLPP members. The parliament privileges committee has failed to investigate and take action against on previous instances and it has now reached to a point of assault,” he added.
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