(Lanka-e-News -24.March.2016, 3.45PM) The government of good governance living up to its name , at yesterday’s (evening) party leaders meeting decided to halt the increase of allowances to parliamentarians which triggered a storm of controversy among the public.
It was the parliament select assembly of the house which proposed that the allowances of the MPs shall be revised. At the party leaders’ meeting this evening held in the parliament premises , speaker Karu Jayasuriya pointed out that the decision taken by the select assembly of the house be reviewed vis a vis the people’s views.
Accordingly , after taking into consideration the views of all the party leaders , it was decided that this proposal be immediately put on hold. Nevertheless , it was unanimously agreed that justice shall be done on behalf of the 7 M.P.s who have not been provided with houses now in the Madiwala housing complex .
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by (2016-03-24 11:20:42)
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