Several senior Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentarians were not present in Parliament when the vote on the Strategic Development Act was taken. 

Members representing constituent parties of the government such as the JHU, JNP and SLMC skipped the vote at the eleventh hour. Athuraliye Rathana Thera, Parliamentarian representing JHU, voted against the regulation along with the Parliamentarians of the opposition.

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This came in a context where seniors of the government had strictly instructed all its members to be present in Parliament during the vote on the Strategic Development Act. The list of ruling party members who were not present in Parliament during the vote is as follows,

Gamini Lokuge

Rishad Bathiudeen

Vasudeva Nanayakkara

Sumedha G. Jayasena

Susil Premjayantha

Athauda Seneviratne

Dr. Rajitha Senaratne

Rauf Hakeem

Basheer Segu Dawood

Patali Champika Ranawaka

Wimal Weerawansa

Premalal Jayasekera

Weerakumara Dissanayake

Neomal Perera

Muththu Sivalingham

M.L.M Hisbullah

Hassen Ali

Mohammed Aslam

Sajin Vas Gunawardena

Palani Digambaram

Manusha Nanayakkara

Ramesh Pathirana

N. Basnayake

Chamika Buddadasa

Ven. Ellawela Medhananda thera

Roshan Ranasinghe

Ruwan Ranatunga

Lohan Ratwatte

Namal Rajapaksa

P. Radhakrishnan

Udith Lokubandara

Vidura Wickremanayake

Neranjan Wickremesinghe

Erik Prasanna

Shehan Semasinghe

M Faris

Kanaka Herath

J. Farook