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Speaker Karu Jayasuriya was reported to have summoned the Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media, Sunil Hettiarachchi and Chairman of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) Somarathne Dissanayake to parliament on December 5th to question them about sudden stoppage of live broadcasting of Parliament sessions. There is an agreement between Parliament and SLBC for live broadcasting of parliament proceedings. However, the live broadcasting was suddenly stopped by SLBC from the 14th of November. The issue was raised by some UNP parliamentarians that this was blatantly violating the agreement and that immediate measures should have been taken against SLBC.