The tense situation came about when Leader of the House and Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella objected to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya giving the JO the opportunity to talk in Parliament over making NFF an independent party in the House as well as assigning a member of the JO to represent views of it in place of JO leader Dinesh Gunawardena who was suspended from attending the sittings for a week.

However according to the order paper the sittings were scheduled from 10.30 am to 1 pm and from 1.30 pm to 7.30 pm.