Meaningful Opposition to Government

SRI Lanka’s sitting Opposition and ousted Parliamentarians are hellbent on being a thorn in the side of the Government.

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Since it took office in September 2024, they have clutched at any piffle to malign the Government. Their mediocre fare has ranged from a Presidential lapse to button his shirt sequentially, a Minister’s English language skills, utterances made during the election campaign to bring back stolen monies from Uganda or other such trivia. One can’t help but ask, are these the stuff that make an Opposition? In fact, the spillover of this mundane issues to even Parliamentary affairs has prompted the Prime Minister on several occasions to make sterns calls for words of substance from the Opposition. During one of the very first Parliamentary sessions the Prime Minister spelled out very clearly what this Government’s expectations are from the Opposition in the house, even though Parliament now is a far cry from the hooliganism which ruled its hallowed chamber in the past