Speaker recognizes Mahinda as Opposition Leader
Posted by Editor on January 8, 2019 - 3:36 pm
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya had accepted the appointment of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Opposition Leader of Parliament, Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri informed parliament today.
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The minorities are never never considered important in Sri Lanka’s political equation.
This gives the Koti Diaspora opportunity to forge ahead.
With Jasmin Sooska’s International Truth and Justice Project compiling a list of missing persons in the war (which is bound to exceed the estimated 40,000), the year 2019 (10 years since the end of the war) is bound to be a turning point leading to the long awaited UN sponsored referendum on the rebirth of the Tamil Homelands.