SC nod for TMVP leader’s entry to House

The Supreme Court yesterday refused to inquire into the rights application against the appointment of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman on the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) list to Parliament.
Petitioner Silva stated that the appointment of third respondent Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan as a Parliamentarian under the UPFA National List is arbitrary, illegal and in violation of the rights of the petitioner and the people of the country.
The petitioner stated that following the resignation of JVP National List Parliamentarian Wasantha Samarasinghe on July 1, the petitioner had nominated Sujith Priyantha Kuruvita as a National List MP to the first respondent UPFA General Secretary, Minister Susil Premajayantha, under the MoU signed by the JVP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in January 20, 2004, that had established the UPFA to contest in the 2004 General Election.
According to the petition, the first respondent had refused to have Sujith Priyantha appointed as a JVP National List MP. Then the petitioner had re-nominated Wasantha Samarasinghe as their National List MP, unsuccessfully since the first respondent had failed to take any action with regard to the appointment of Sujith Kuruvita.
However, the petitioner stated that the respondents illegally had taken steps to appoint Muralitharan on the UPFA National List as an MP.
The petitioner was seeking to have the extraordinary gazette notification dated October 06, by the Election Commissioner appointing the third respondent as a MP, annulled.
He also sought declarations that the gazette and nomination of the third respondent is in violation of the rights of petitioner and that the petitioner is entitled to have the nominee of the JVP declared elected by the election commissioner as a member of Parliament from the UPFA.
The petitioner cited UPFA General Secretary, Minister Susil Premajayantha, SLFP General Secretary Minister Maithreepala Sirisena, Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake and the Attorney General as respondents.(DailyNews)