Resignation contagion

Hot on the heels of SJB MP Eran Wickremaratne resigning from parliamentary watchdog Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), six other members of the same committee announced yesterday that they, too, would resign.

SLPP Kurunegala District dissident MP Dayasiri Jayasekera, SJB Colombo District MP M. S. M. Marikkar, SLPP dissident MP Prof. Charitha Herath, TNA MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, SLPP MP Gamini Waleboda, and SJB MP Hesha Withanage, announced that they, too, would resign from the committee.