Dinesh to head PSC on electoral reforms

Leader of the House Minister Dinesh Gunawardena was named yesterday to head the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to identify appropriate reforms to election laws and the electoral system and to recommend necessary amendments.

He will head the 14-member Committee, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said.

The other members of the PSC are Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva, G.L. Peiris, Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Douglas Devananda, Wimal Weerawansa and M.U.M. Ali Sabry and MPs Jeevan Thondaman, Anura Dissanayake, Kabir Hashim, R.M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara, Mano Ganesan, M.A. Sumanthiran, Madhura Withanage and Sagara Kariyawasam.