Ranil proposes agenda to set up Parliamentary Committee for political solution

Leader of Sri Lanka’s Opposition and main opposition United National Party (UNP) Ranil Wickremasinghe has proposed an agenda to help form the proposed parliamentary select committee (PSC) on finding a solution to the national question.

Wickremasinghe in a statement to parliament has offered to help form the PSC and called on the government to build an environment conducive for the opposition parties to participate in the PSC.

Wickremasinghe has said that such an environment is possible on an agenda based on implementing the recommendations of the LLRC Report including a devolution package, implementing the 13th Amendment and further building on it to achieve meaningful devolution and considering the bilateral discussions between the three-member committee of the Government Parliamentary Group and the Tamil National Alliance.

The parliamentary deliberations will be within this framework and a report will be submitted to the parliament, he has noted.

 The Opposition Leader has said that he had informed the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) of the proposed agenda.

He has assured the TNA that his party will support all decisions arrived at during the bilateral talks between the representatives of the Government and the representatives of the TNA.

“The Government has not objected to what we proposed above – in order to create a suitable environment for the PSC,” he has added.

Wickremasinghe has urged the Leader of the House to endorse his party’s agenda.