by Our Parliamentary Corrs.
Deputy Minister Wijithamuni Soysa raised a privilege question yesterday concerning a matter of the "Organisation for the Protection of Democracy" held in committee room 2 in Parliament on Tuesday.

The concerned meeting was attended by the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Minister Rauff Hakeem and a number of other MPs from opposition parties also attended together with foreign diplomats and religious dignitaries.

Deputy Minister Soysa contended that it was improper to hold such a meeting in a parliament committee room since it was not chaired by a MP. The meeting was chaired by Waruna Karunatilleke, Victor Ivan and Sunanda Deshapriya. He further said that they too would hold such meetings in parliament in the future.

Deputy Speaker Sarath Munasinghe who was in the chair said that he will take up the matter at the party leaders’ meeting.