{"id":82849,"date":"2023-10-07T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=82849"},"modified":"2023-10-07T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T10:25:50","slug":"environment-minister-nazeer-ahamed-will-lose-his-parliamentary-seat-following-three-judge-bench-supreme-court-ruling-that-the-batticaloa-district-mps-expulsion-from-party-by-the-sri-lanka-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=82849","title":{"rendered":"Environment  Minister  Nazeer Ahamed will  Lose His Parliamentary Seat Following Three Judge Bench Supreme Court Ruling that the Batticaloa District MP&#8217;s Expulsion from Party by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress *SLMC) is Legally Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Lakmal Sooriyagoda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment today determined that the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress&#8217; decision to expel Minister Nazeer Ahamad from the party membership is legally valid.<\/p>\n<p>With this Supreme Court judgment, Nazeer Ahamad&#8217;s expulsion will lead to the loss of his parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court three-judge-bench bench headed by Justice Preethi Padman Surasena observed that there is no reason to interfere with the decision of the party to expel petitioner Nazeer Ahamad from party membership.<\/p>\n<p>The application of the petitioner was dismissed accordingly without costs.<\/p>\n<p>The SLMC decided to expel Environment Minister Naseer Ahamad following his decision to vote in favour of the budget at the Third Reading on December 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The High Command of the SLMC had unanimously resolved to expel the petitioner from party membership.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjeeva Jayawardena PC with Ruwantha Cooray, Rukshan Senadheera and Punyajith Dunusinghe appeared for the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>M.A. Sumanthiran PC with Viran Corea, Anne Kulanayagam and Divya Mascranghe appeared for the SLMC.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton82849\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D82849&amp;text=Environment%20%20Minister%20%20Nazeer%20Ahamed%20will%20%20Lose%20His%20Parliamentary%20Seat%20Following%20Three%20Judge%20Bench%20Supreme...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lakmal Sooriyagoda The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment today determined that the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress&#8217; decision to expel Minister Nazeer Ahamad from the party membership is legally valid. With this Supreme Court judgment, Nazeer Ahamad&#8217;s expulsion will lead to the loss of his parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82850,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82849\/revisions\/82850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}