The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Party claimed that most of the committees including Parliamentary committees appointed under the direction of President and Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe do not benefit the people or the country's economy in any way.

Speaking to The Daily Morning, the SLPP General Secretary and Government Parliamentarian, attorney Sagara Kariyawasam said: “President Wickremesinghe keeps appointing committees, but they don’t deliver any positive outcome to the people and the country's economy. What we feel is that those committees are aimed at deceiving the people.”

Following the resignation of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the midst of the massive public protests that demanded the same, the SLPP endorsed Wickremesinghe as their candidate for the Parliamentary vote to elect the President. Although the SLPP fully supported Wickremesinghe in his programmes in the beginning, there have been recent instances of SLPPers criticising him over various matters, particularly the granting of more Ministerial posts to non-SLPPers.

Meanwhile, claiming that there were nearly 80 committees operating in the Parliament, Kariyawasam recently said that there were only six committee rooms for those committees to meet. He, being a member of several such committees, said that the lack of committee rooms has hindered the functions of the Parliamentary committees to a greater extent.