MP argues over his six minutes being reduced to four

The backbenchers in Parliament often find their allocated speech time reduced to mere minutes in the afternoon sessions after party heavyweights seek to use their time for their lengthy speeches.

As Parliament sat this week, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga found his earlier allocated time of six minutes was reduced to a four minutes at Thursday evening’s proceedings, with poor attendance of lawmakers in the House.

He took up the matter with the Presiding Chair on how his time was arbitrarily reduced and the back-and-forth arguement went on nearly for two further minutes from his allocated total of four minutes.

The MP made do with a brief contribution and wound up.