Sri Lanka, March 19 -- Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne has resigned from the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) with effect from yesterday (18).

"COPE has been established to ensure the observance of financial discipline in public corporations and other semi-governmental bodies in which the Government has a financial stake.

By appointing a ruling party member as its Chairman, the committee fails to meet its objectives of keeping a check on the executive arm of the Government. To this end, the 2015-2019 Government followed a best practice of appointing the Chairman for the two key Committees - COPE and COPA - from the Opposition," he said in a statement.

He further said that the duty of the COPE is t...