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Opp. asks why waste money while people are starving
Speaker to consider SJB request to cancel traditional lunch after budget
By Saman Indrajith
SJB MPs called on Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to cancel the traditional Speaker’s Luncheon for MPs at the end of the budget debate and utilise the funds so saved for provide relief to pandemic-hit people.
Matara District SJB MP Buddhika Pathirana said that all MPs had been invited to the luncheon to be hosted by the speaker at the end of the budget debate.
Badulla District SJB MP Chaminda Wijesiri said that an enormous amount of funds would be spent on the luncheon. “All 225 MPs are invited and a large number of other invitees too are expected. Expenditure of this nature at a time when people have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and some of them are skipping meals. Following the Easter Sunday carnage, the then speaker Karu Jayasuriya cancelled the Speaker’s Luncheon. I propose that the money to be spent on the luncheon be used to provide relief to people affected by the pandemic.”
Speaker Abeywardena said that he would think about it.
It has been reported that the death toll in the Gerandi Ella accident which took place this morning has risen to 21. It has also been reported that the government wil rs 1 million as compensation to the families of the victims.
It has been reported that the death toll in the Gerandi Ella bus accident has risen to 11
It has been reported that Eight persons [five males and three females] have died when a SLTB bus operating from Kataragama to Kurunegala via Nuwara Eliya, veered off the road and went down a precipice early morning today (11) in Gerandi Ella in Ramboda along the Nuwara Eliya – Gampola main road, Police said.
At least 37 others injured in the accident, have been admitted to the Nuwar Eliya and Kothmale hospitals.
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