MP Dilan Perera has also decided to resign from the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), becoming the 11th member to do so.
Earlier, Eran Wickramaratne, Gamini Waleboda, Prof. Charitha Herath, Dayasiri Jayasekara, S. M. Marikkar, Hesha Withanage, Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, Wasantha Yapa Bandara, Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Duminda Dissanayake had quit the committee membership, to remonstrate the appointment of new COPE chairman.
At the first COPE meeting of the Fifth Session of the Ninth Parliament convened on March 07, Rohitha Abeygunawardena was elected by majority votes to serve as the new chairman. His name had been nominated by MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage and seconded by MP Sanjeewa Edirimanna.
Meanwhile, the first COPE meeting under the chairmanship of Abeygunawardana was convened at the parliament complex on Tuesday (March 19) despite the string of member resignations.
