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- ↑ "Bribery and corruption in pre-independence legislature". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ↑ Goonetilleke, T. V. (1984). Facets of Our Legislature. Library of Parliament. pp. 39–40.
- ↑ "Of 69 Years- 57 Gobbled up by Politicians, their Acolytes, Cronies and Vandibattas!". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 27 August 2021.