Gigolos and a day in Sri Lanka’s parliament

by admin
May 8, 2012

Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Dilan Perera and UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayaka called each other ‘gigolos’ during a debate in parliament, The Island reported on Wednesday.

The debate centred around the fate of Rizana Nafeeq, a house maid on death row in Saudi Arabia.

"There are gigolos who go from here and stage protests in front of our embassies but no problem could be solved in this manner," Minister Perera.

MP Ramanayake replied in kind, asking why Perera was calling him a gigolo, when the minister was the one known by that name.

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