Sri Lanka’s Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has informed the Attorney General to look into a controversial statement made by State Minister of Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran calling for the reorganization of the LTTE.
The Speaker has asked the Attorney General to look into whether the State Minister Vijayakala has violated the Constitution or any laws and if so to take necessary legal action.
“It is seen that there is a huge need of reorganization of the LTTE in the North and East, State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran has said addressing a public event at the Weerasingham Hall in Jaffna yesterday.
A tense situation erupted in Parliament yesterday and the session was suspended over the statement made by the State Minister, who is a member of the ruling United National party, as lawmakers on both side of the aisle condemned the controversial statement.
The Speaker decided to postpone the sittings of Parliament until today (04) as Joint Opposition parliamentarians continued to disrupt the session over the issue.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said he has informed the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe regarding the statement made by the State Minister. Accordingly, the Prime Minister had told him that he would take appropriate action in this regard.
“Now we remember how we lived before May 18, 2009. In the present conditions our main intention is to bring back the LTTE If we want to live, if we want to walk freely, if we need our children to attend schools and return back,” State Minister was quoted as saying at the event yesterday.
Condemning her statement, people in social media pointed out that her husband MP T. Maheswaran was assassinated by LTTE on 01 January 2008.
