Speaker approves 48 ministers to be appointed to the national government

At the Parliament today to the suggestion made by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe to
the honourable speaker Karu Jayasuriya that in order to made a national government between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party a maximum number of Ministers have to be appointed.

It was agreed upon that there should be 48 Ministers that need to be elected to form a national government.

In terms of the amendment passed to the 19 amendment to the constitution of the government to the parliament the number of Ministers had to be increased from 30 to 48 and the deputy Ministers from 40 to 45.This proposal was made today.

At that moment the leader of the JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood up and opposed to it and said how this would be a national government.

R,Sambandan, Vasudewa Nanayakkara, Nimal Siripala de Silva and Chandrasiri Gajadeera stood up and commented on their views

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Owing to this conflict situation the Speaker had to adjourn the house by allowing 10 minutes to calm down .The Speaker then said that the most number of eats had been won by the UNP and the rest of the parties who won seats would be combined to form a national government.