Opposition demands Finance Secretary’s presence in connection with funds for LG Polls

By: Isuru Parakrama

Colombo (LNW): A group of MPs from the Opposition together with Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa demanded that Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardena should be summoned to Parliament for an inquiry over a letter sent by the Election Commission regarding the allocation of funds for the Local Government Election.

The Opposition Leader and the group of MPs today (28) met with Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena at the Parliament Complex to discuss on the future measures to be followed with regard to the EC’s letter, demanding that an inquiry should be held into the basis on which a claim was made that funds cannot be allocated for the LG Polls. The Treasury Secretary should be summoned to Parliament for this inquiry, they emphasised.

SJB MPs and MPs representing the ‘Janatha Nidahas Sandhanaya’ attended this meeting.

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