Parliament set to convene today

The Parliament of Sri Lanka will convene at 1.00 p.m. today (08) for the first session of the year 2019.

The session will be chaired by the Deputy Speaker as Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is currently overseas on an official visit.

A meeting of the party leaders was held yesterday (07) to prepare the agenda of today’s Parliamentary session.

Accordingly, the Parliament will convene for four consecutive days from today, stated the Chief Government Whip, Minister Gayantha Karunatileka.

Meanwhile, the President of the SLFP Youth Front Shantha Bandara is slated to swear in as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) today.

He will fill the parliamentary seat left vacant following the resignation of former MP M. L. A. M. Hizbullah.

The extraordinary gazette notification naming Shantha Bandara as a Member of Parliament was published by the Elections Commission yesterday.

Hizbullah was recently appointed as the new governor of the Eastern Province and accordingly, prior to the appointment he had handed over his resignation from his post as a Member of Parliament.