‘SUMMON JUDGES IN CONTEMPT OF house’
Priyanka KURUGALA
* Make them
answerable
* Only CJ who
used Judiciary to favour husband
 All judges who violated Parliamentary privilege by issuing orders to
Parliament should be summoned before the Parliamentary Privileges
Committee, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and Construction,
Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal
Weerawansa said.
Addressing a press conference at the NFF Headquarters in Battaramulla,
Jayanthipura yesterday, the minister referred to former Speaker Anura
Bandaranaike’s ruling that the Judiciary cannot issue orders to
Parliament.
“Is it correct for the Chief Justice to selectively cite the
Constitution to her advantage ?” he asked.
“Issuing orders against Parliament is an act unbecoming of judges of
court,” the minister said. Weerawansa said the President had clearly
requested his ministers and MPs not to discuss the impeachment issue in
public.
“However, the Chief Justice’s supporters are continuing to issue
media statements that he and Minister Rajitha Senaratne had cases heard
by the Chief Justice and was thus biased as members of the Parliamentary
Select Committee,” he said. “The Select Committee only played an
investigative role and did not sit as judicial officers .The backers of
the Chief justice have clearly failed to comprehend this,” the minister
said. Weerawansa said journalists have the opportunity to criticise any
thing said in Parliament. “But can they criticise the Judiciary?” he
asked. The minister said international conspiracies are afoot to harm
the country’s stability.
Persons like Sumanthiran, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Weliamuna and
Wijedasa Rajapakse, the TNA and the UNP have joined forces with the
Chief Justice in this conspiracy along with the JVP, he said. “Whatever
anyone says, we will not cease to do our duty by the motherland, ” the
minister said.“She is the one and only Chief Justice in the world who
used the Judiciary to favour her husband. She is the Chief Justice who
went against two interim injunctions to secure a home for her sister in
the Golden Key case,” he said. |
