Charitha Herath to head COPE, Tissa Vitarana to head COPA

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Both reappointed to head respective committees
Committees reconstituted after inauguration of new session of House on 18 Jan.

MP Charitha Herath was re-elected as the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) for the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament at the Committee’s inaugural meeting held yesterday.

Herath’s name was proposed to the Chair by Minister Sarath Weerasekara and seconded by MP Susil Premajayantha.

Meanwhile MP Tissa Vitarana was also re-elected as the Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA).

His name was proposed by State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara and seconded by MP Ashok Abeysinghe at the inaugural committee meeting yesterday.

Both Herath and Vitarana served as Chairman of the respective Committees during the first session of the House which ended with the prorogation of Parliament on 13 December.

The Committees were newly constituted after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa opened the new session of the House on 18 January.

The terms of the Committee lapse with the prorogation of the House and have to be reconstituted at the commencement of a new session.

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