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No-confidence motion against Minister Kumara Jayakody defeated in ...
On Apr 12, 2026 K web pix 12 The No-Confidence Motion (NCM) against Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody was defeated in Parliament today, by a majority of 104 votes. During the vote, 153 MPs voted against, and 49 MPs voted in favour of the NCM. The no-confidence motion against Minister Jayakody was presented to Parliament today by SJB MP Ajith P. Perera, citing alleged irregularities in coal procurement and indictments filed before the Colombo High Court. Earlier this month, submitting the No‑Confidence Motion to the Speaker of Parliament, the opposition alleged that the Minister of Energy has failed to discharge his primary duty to ensure the procurement of sufficient and quality coal for the Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant in Norochcholai, and that such gross negligence in overseeing a critical national energy asset constitutes a fundamental breach of the responsibility of a minister. They also pointed out that the Minister of Energy has been formally charged before the Colombo High Court by the Bribery Commission for allegedly committing an ‘‘act of corruption’‘ while serving as the Procurement Manager of the Ceylon Fertilizer Company Limited. (Newswire) The post No-confidence motion against Minister Kumara Jayakody defeated in Parliament appeared first on Newswire.
A crisis of legitimacy: Public sentiment on Kumara Jayakody ... - LinkedIn
Sanjana H. Sanjana H. Published Apr 16, 2026 A study of Facebook posts from March to April 2026 This analysis engages with over 4,300 comments and more than 770 public Facebook posts across two study periods, March 28 to April 3 and April 5 to 10, drawing from posts published to Newspedia, BBC Sinhala, Newswire, Dasatha Lanka News, and Newsfirst, as well as 772 public Facebook posts specifically about Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody. The methodology combines qualitative sentiment analysis with close attention to the register of Sinhala-language commentary, particularly its deployment of sarcasm, irony, and coded political vocabulary, a choice that proves analytically productive given how much of the substantive criticism travels through these indirections. The two controversies at the centre of the study, CIABOC's March 2026 indictments over alleged procurement irregularities at the Ceylon Fertiliser Company [ලංකා පොහොර සමාගම] and the coal procurement scandal involving substandard imports for the Norochcholai plant [ගල් අඟුරු වංචාව], are treated not as discrete cases but as mutually reinforcing narratives that, taken together, struck at the NPP government's foundational claim to ethical governance. The defeat of the no-confidence motion on 10 April by 153 votes to 49 failed to contain the political damage and appears instead to have deepened it. Where March commentary directed its anger at Jayakody personally, calling him “හොරා” [thief], “කම්බ හොරා” [outright thief], and “ගල් අඟුරු හොරා” [coal thief], April posts migrated that anger upward to the institutional apparatus that shielded him, with the 153 MPs who voted against the motion acquiring their own designation as collectively complicit. The government's post-vote announcement of a Special Presidential Commission investigating coal procurement from 2009 onwards attracted immediate scepticism, with commenters reading it as evasion rather than accountability, an impression captured in the sardonic observation that it recalled “සිරිසේන පාස්කු කොමිසම” [Sirisena's Easter commission], appointed after the fact. Jayakody's parliamentary claim that he had not stolen “even a single rupee” [“එක රුපියලක් හරි හොරා කෑවානම් ඔප්පු කරන්න”] produced a wave of deadpan counter-commentary pointing out that coal procurement is transacted in dollars, not rupees, a retort that weaponised his own defence. The emergence of self-identified NPP voters publicly expressing regret [“මාළිමාවට දුන්නු ඡන්දෙ ගැන මට දැන් කණගාටුයි”...
NCM against energy minister defeated - lankaleader.lk
A no-confidence motion against minister of energy Kumara Jayakody was defeated in parliament on Friday (10) by a majority of 104 votes.
NCM against Energy Minister defeated - Ceylon Today
The No-Confidence Motion presented by the Opposition against Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody was defeated in Parliament on Friday (10) by a majority of 104 votes.
