No-confidence motion was by Mahinda, or JO MPs?

Aug 28, 2017

The joint opposition has handed over to the speaker a no-confidence motion, signed by 39 MPs, demanding the removal of Rajitha Senaratne as the health minister. Previously too, the JO moved no-confidence motions against government ministers, but none materialized. The JO has now made no-confidence motions a joke due to these baseless moves.

The ex-president has told a government minister that he had agreed to move the no-confidence motion at the insistence of the MPs around him. Therefore, it is clear that even he believes this to be a falsehood and a joke. He has also told the minister that JO MPs were likely to claim that the no-confidence motion was moved at his insistence.

 

Making his remark true, a top JO figure has told a government minister that the no-confidence motion was wanted by the former president. The ex-president is trying to save face by blaming it on the MPs around him, while they too, do likewise.

 

It is unfortunate for the country’s politics that the power-hungry Mahinda Rajapaksa and those around him have made a joke out of no-confidence motions before the public.