Sri Lanka, June 17 -- The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and MP Ravi Karunanayake walked out of Parliament today accusing Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne of acting in a dictatorial manner.

"We decided to walk out as we were not allowed to raise a question about the Middle East crisis, which is becoming extremely serious," Chief Opposition Whip Gayantha Karunathilaka told the Daily Mirror.

The crisis is going to affect Sri Lanka tremendously and it was unfair that we were prevented from raising questions," he added.

Meanwhile, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Shanakyan Rasamanikam said the TNA has decided to stay on and participate in today's debate in Parliament in order to raise matters raised by members of the Tamil community.

He said...