The Hindu : `Send them to wildlife sanctuary'

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002

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`Send them to wildlife sanctuary'

By V. S. Sambandan

COLOMBO OCT. 22. Sri Lanka's Parliamentary Affairs Minister, A.H.M. Azwer, today compared the noisy members of the Opposition to wild animals and urged the Speaker to pack them off to a wildlife sanctuary in south-eastern Sri Lanka.

"You should send these untamed animals to the Yala sanctuary,'' Mr. Azwer told the Speaker, when the Opposition MPs were shouting for the resignation of the Constitutional Affairs Minister, G.L. Peiris, who was not in Parliament when the Supreme Court's ruling on the 19th amendment was read out. "There is a dearth of animals in Yala,'' Mr. Azwer said adding that the "Leader of the Opposition must be sent to the zoo.''

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