The trade unions attached to the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) will be disbanded in the near future, NPP candidate Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi said.

Addressing a public event in Kesbewa, the senior JVP member pointed out there was no need for trade unions under the current circumstances and that the inconvenience faced by the country due to strikes will end after November 14.

“Earlier teachers, principals, doctors, nurses, and bus associations were all continuously striking. Going forward such strikes will permanently end in the country,” NPP candidate Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi said.

He pointed out that in the next 10- 15 years, it will come to the point of educating children of the future generation on the meaning of strikes and curfews.

“A good country is created without any of that. This is a period of transition which will end after November 14,” he added. (Newswire)

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Legal experts have said that a Parliamentarian can be appointed as a Cabinet Minister, despite not having taken an oath of office as a Member of Parliament.

Shedding light on the procedure, former Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya also confirmed that a person is only required to be appointed as a Member of Parliament to hold a Cabinet portfolio.

In a statement on social media, he further said that, however, it was not necessary to take the oath as a Member of Parliament.

Meanwhile, a political science expert of the Sri Jayawardenepura University, Professor Vishaka Sooriyabandara also revealed that a Parliamentarian is not required to take the oath of office as a Member of Parliament to be appointed as a Cabinet Minister.

Speaking to local media, Prof. Sooriyabandara said that the gazette that has been issued mentioning the appointment as a Member of Parliament was sufficient to be appointed as a Cabinet Minister.

Prof. Sooriyabandara pointed out that by not taking the oath of office as a Member of Parliament, he only loses the opportunity to vote and speak in Parliament.

The clarifications come as National People’s Power (NPP) member Lakshman Nipuna Aaarchchi, who was recently gazetted as a Parliamentarian but is yet to take oaths in Parliament, is likely to be appointed as a Cabinet Minister under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s new government. (Newswire)

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A Gazette notification has been issued announcing the appointment of former National Peoples’ Power (NPP) MP Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi as a member of Parliament.

Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi’s name has been gazetted to fill the parliamentary seat vacated by Anura Kumara Dissanayake who assumed duties as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka today.

Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi has been appointed as a Member of Parliament after he was next in line from the Colombo district on the NPP’s preferential voting as per the results of the 2020 general election.

Gazette issued by the National Election Commission : http://documents.gov.lk/files/egz/2024/9/2403-01_E.pdf (Newswire)

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