Premalal Jayasekera allowed to attend Parliamentary sittings
Posted by Editor on September 7, 2020 - 1:10 pm
The Department of Prisons has been informed to allow convicted MP Premalal Jayasekera to attend Parliamentary sittings.
The Court of Appeal has issued an interim order on the Commissioner General of Prisons with this regard.
The convicted MP had filed a writ petition seeking the High Court to issue an Interim Order to Commissioner General of Prisons to allow him to attend Parliament sittings.
Accordingly, the interim order was issued by Appeal Court Judge Bench, President of the Appeal Court A. H. M. D. Nawaz and Justice Sobitha Rajakaruna.
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Killers will make policies to control innocent citizens in this country.
Why was I born in this country !.
Killers, drug addicts, fraudsters.thugs com merchants in our parliament Great..
But 104,000 citizens from Ratnapura cast their vote for him while he was in death row following HC ruling.
Surely, 104,000 citizens cannot all be crazy?
Let him sit in parliament and rule. No worries.
Excellent Leila,
The will of 104,000 citizens in Ratnapura cannot be ignored.
Their representative in Parliament must sit and lead the nation.
Getting a convicted criminal sentenced to death for serious crime of MURDER, to take oaths in parliament by the Speaker is an ABOMINATION and against all principles of decency and ethics. Does the Speaker dispute the conviction and sentence by the Ratnapura High Court ??????
I can’t comprehend the sanity of comment by Leila Mathew. Citizens who voted for the criminal were not properly advised by the politicians and the EC. This episode clearly demonstrates the FARCE OF DEMOCRACY !!!
Michael,
Why blame the EC.
The Party which gained 2/3rd majority fielded this person as a candidate.
The 104,000 citizens voted for him while in death row.
Any issues with that, Michael?
Leila Mathew, No I have no issues with that. The party which gained 2/3 majority fielded this criminal – but I think before he was convicted – yet the party should have removed him from the candidacy when they realised he was a criminal. Yes I blame the EC – they should have taken the action to remove him from the list – that was their job and that is why DEMOCRACY has failed.