No action against SLFP absentees
Although approximately 47 parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party were not present in Parliament to vote for the proposal submitted to increase the number of ministers in the National Government, Duminda Dissanayake, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, said there was no need for any disciplinary inquiries into the matter. Dissanayake said that 37 from the United People's Freedom Alliance voted in favour of this proposal, and it was only 16 parliamentarians who voted against it and none of them were members of the Sri Lanka Freedom
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BY W.K. Prasad Manju