When the motion of no confidence against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena was taken up in the Parliament today, it was seen that the opposition members put up strong obstacles to it.
According to the complaint of the Department of Archeology, the police arrested a group of people who were engaged in religious activities at a religious place in Vavuniya area, and the members of the Tamil National Alliance protested in the middle of the assembly saying that the group should be released immediately.
At that time, the opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who stood up, addressed the Deputy Speaker Ajith Rajapaksa who was in the chair and urged him to solve this problem immediately. Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksa, who presented the facts, said that since this issue is before the court, he cannot intervene in it, and the only thing that can be done is to inquire about the facts and report to the court.
Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said that he was surprised that opposition itself obstructed the discussion of the no-confidence motion brought by the them.