Parliamentarians outraged by traffic caused due to protests

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The parliament of Ministers who were inconvenienced by the university protest raised the matter in Parliament today. UNP parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake said that it took him almost 20 minutes to get to the parliament from the temple trees and questioned what sort of democracy prevails at present. To which chairing MP Shehan Semasinghe stated that appropriate measures would be taken to forward the issue to the speaker and that the Inspector General of Police has been informed on the matter. Karunanayake retorted that just doing so is not going to be sufficient and that the matter has to be informed to the Police and that the situation itself clearly was a misuse of freedom. UPFA Parliamentarian, Vasudewa Nanayakkara commented saying that since this was not the first time such an incident has occurred and whether to control the protestors or not it should be done in a manner that would not cause any obstructions. He also added that the right to freely travel around should be protected.