CM lauds MPs who voted for impeachment motion

Tennakoon Kulasekera

The nation's honour and gratitude is due to the Parliamentarians who voted for the impeachment motion safeguarding people's sovereignty and democracy, North Central Province Chief Minister S M Ranjith Samarakoon said.

He said their patriotic action will go down in the country's history in letters of gold as it has defeated all attempts by local and international conspirators in league with the Tamil Diaspora to destablise the country and inconvenience the government by creating a rift between the judiciary and the legislature, he said.

He said the people have not forgotten the manner in which the JVP which opposed the impeachment, disrupted the work of the judiciary and law and order by using the infamous chit during the 1971 and 1988 periods.

"The UNP daydream of making the impeachment a scapegoat to ride to power, too had now been shattered," he said.