A tense situation has been reported at the Western Provincial Council following a heated exchange of words between government and opposition councilors during today’s session.
Ada Derana reporter said that the session was postponed until September 04 due to the tense situation which had prevailed during the debate on the draft bill of the 20th amendment to the constitution, to hold elections for all PCs on the same day.
Before a vote was taken on the bill, Chief Minister of the Western Province Isura Devapriya called for a party leaders’ meeting and proposed that the bill should be re submitted to the council.
Provincial council members representing the Joint Opposition raised objections to this resulting in an uproar in the chamber while they even proceeded to grab the Mace and attempted to make off with it.
Provincial councilors representing the United National Party (UNP) then intervened by taking the Mace from their possession and taking it out of the chamber.
