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Harassed MPs to complain
By Dilrukshi Handunnetti
A group of opposition MPs have resolved to urge President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to put an end to the UNF government's practice of harassing PA MPs with allegedly trumped up cases against them.

Kandy district PA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said it has been the UNF's practice to unnecessarily victimise the PA's elected representatives and innocent party supporters, which fact has been amply demonstrated by the number of cases that fell apart due to lack of evidence.

In the aftermath of Galle district MP Piyasena Gamage being arrested in connection with an assault and the grilling of Nuwara Eliya district MP C.B. Ratnayake on Thursday, Mr. Aluthgamage said that the PA has learned that several other MPs are also to be grilled and arrested.

He said the trend towards political victimisation and the use of law enforcement agencies to subvert the law needed to be arrested, adding that the PA backbenchers wanted Presidential intervention to curb further victimisation.

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