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Shortly after assuming office at Temple Trees yesterday, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa filled in the e-application prepared by Parliament and submitted his biographic details to the Parliament Secretariat.
The Parliament Secretariat has introduced an online registration system to obtain details of elected members of the Ninth Parliament, which is scheduled to commence on 20 August. The Prime Minister completed the e-application setting an example for the other Members of Parliament to send in their information online.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, information technology has been used in Parliament to obtain information online, allowing MPs to do so while in their constituencies without traveling to Parliament.
Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake, Assistant Secretary General Tikiri K. Jayathilake and several officials were present at the occasion where the Prime Minister completed the process of submitting the online application.