Parliamentarian Weerakumara Dissanayake of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance seems to be in hot water.

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has issued an arrest warrant today (September 19) on MP Weerakumara.

Why? The parliamentarian had failed to appear before court on a previous summon.

Legal proceedings have been initiated against the UPFA parliamentarian by the Kuruduwatta police for staging a demonstration opposite the United Nations Head-quarters in 2016, causing disruption to the general public,

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