SC nod for TMVP leader’s entry to House
Wasantha Ramanayake
The Supreme Court yesterday refused to inquire into the rights
application against the appointment of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan
alias Karuna Amman on the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) list
to Parliament.
Petitioner Silva stated that the appointment of third respondent
Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan as a Parliamentarian under the UPFA
National List is arbitrary, illegal and in violation of the rights of
the petitioner and the people of the country.
The petitioner stated that following the resignation of JVP National
List Parliamentarian Wasantha Samarasinghe on July 1, the petitioner had
nominated Sujith Priyantha Kuruvita as a National List MP to the first
respondent UPFA General Secretary, Minister Susil Premajayantha, under
the MoU signed by the JVP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in January 20,
2004, that had established the UPFA to contest in the 2004 General
Election.
According to the petition, the first respondent had refused to have
Sujith Priyantha appointed as a JVP National List MP. Then the
petitioner had re-nominated Wasantha Samarasinghe as their National List
MP, unsuccessfully since the first respondent had failed to take any
action with regard to the appointment of Sujith Kuruvita.
However, the petitioner stated that the respondents illegally had
taken steps to appoint Muralitharan on the UPFA National List as an MP.
The petitioner was seeking to have the extraordinary gazette
notification dated October 06, by the Election Commissioner appointing
the third respondent as a MP, annulled.
He also sought declarations that the gazette and nomination of the
third respondent is in violation of the rights of petitioner and that
the petitioner is entitled to have the nominee of the JVP declared
elected by the election commissioner as a member of Parliament from the
UPFA.
The petitioner cited UPFA General Secretary, Minister Susil
Premajayantha, SLFP General Secretary Minister Maithreepala Sirisena,
Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, Election Commissioner Dayananda
Dissanayake and the Attorney General as respondents. |