On 27th November 2015, the Joint Opposition submitted a motion seeking a vote of no-confidence against Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake on several charges. Moving the motion Joint Opposition MP Dinesh Gunawardena held the Minister of Finance misled the Parliament and the general public through misrepresentation and made the budget a mere fabrication by neglecting the element Parliament holding the full control over public finance in terms of Article 148 of the Constitution. They also accused the Minister for following an arbitrary, inflexible and capricious public finance management policy causing seriously damaging impact on the macro economic variables of the country. (AH)