Will commit suicide if not appointed through national list: Former SJB MP

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Colombo, Nov 26 (Daily Mirror) - Former Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Thushara Indunil Amarasena said he will commit suicide if he is not appointed to Parliament through the national list.

“I obtained more than 40,000 preferential votes at this year’s General Elections and am among the top ten who obtained the most number of preferential votes from the SJB. Therefore, I must be appointed from the national list. I have already talked to party leader Sajith Premadasa and I am confident that he will heed my request. I will end my life if I am not appointed to the House,” Amarasena told journalists.

“The party leader has become helpless as many are demanding that they be appointed through the national list,” he added.

Former MP Sujeewa Senasinghe said he too should get a slot from the national list as per the promise made by the party leader.

“I was asked not to contest the elections from Kandy and the party leadership pledged to appoint me from the national list. Therefore, I am eligible to be appointed from the national list,” he added.

Comments - 11

ANNECUNT Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:10 PM

well done .that is a very good decision, we all would like to see you do it . please give us the the TIME DATE AND THE PLACE YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT you are a very brave man

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Be Fair Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:12 PM

Try, and Rest in Peace. These news columns can be better without people like you saying such idiotic stuff

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sam Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:15 PM

People have rejected you and you now want to enter through the back door

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Nimrl 1 Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:15 PM

None of the scoundrels who were not elected should be given positions in the national list.

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Chryshan Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:22 PM

Oh another one bite the dust.

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Lanka Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:07 PM

How can someone says this openly be a MP ? MP must set a model to our community and he or she must be protecting human life and if he is going to take his life : this person is ready to harm himself and he must be sanctioned by expert Dr : he is going to cause harm to his life and it is the government responsibility to protect his life now before he does it and blames the government and Healthcare workers should visit to check him up : his safety first and then his family safety and then public safety.

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San Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:07 PM

With the resent spate of teenage suicides this is a very idiotic statement from a former MP. All the more reason not to appoint through the national list.

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Iwazaru Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:10 PM

I hope you will not be appointed as a MP from the national list of the SJB. As such please go ahead with your noble wish!

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Anil Thirimanna Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:11 PM

I honestly hope that there should be more "old politicians" follow this same steps. It is waste of time and resources to punish the politicians who destroyed the country, so let them jump off the cliff one by one. Please provide them free transport to World's End.

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Denys Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:20 PM

National list should be abolished as all the politicians rejected by the public try to get back in through the back door called the National list AKD, you got a majority, abolished it

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ACL Tuesday, 26 November 2024 05:46 PM

Good riddance.. You people are so desperate to get an MP position that you will risk your own life... wow a new level of desperation

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