If the government abolishes the MP pension, it is reported that the former MPs of the JVP have decided to take legal action demanding the MP salary that the JVP has been illegally and forcefully taking for many years.
Commenting on this, former Matara District MP and Secretary of the JVP Retired Parliamentarians’ Association, Premasiri Manage, says that there are currently nearly thirty politicians who have retired as MPs of the JVP.
Accordingly, the JVP will have to pay nearly three crore rupees for each retired MP, he says. He also points out that among the retired MPs who will be treated unfairly if the pensions of former MPs are abolished, there are nearly fifty people who left the public service and entered politics.
Former MP Premasiri Manage further said that if the government does not provide a solution to this problem, he hopes to complain to the Geneva Human Rights Commission as well as the Inter-Parliamentary Union.