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Sunday, November 5th, 2017
Laksiri Warnakula ‘Making a mountain out of a mole is a lot easier than bringing a mountain that has grown high, far and wide down to the size of a mole’ Our politicians have never understood this, either because of their stupidity or their greed for power and personal gains. I for one, would put […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
DR. WIJEYADASA RAJAPAKSHE, President’s Counsel What could be comprehended by the Word Constitution? Constitution is recognised as a document made by law makers inserting a set of rules which are needed for the governance of the relevant territory, and it is considered supreme and unchallengeable. Inclusion of the following mandatory features could be seen in a […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
DR. WIJEYADASA RAJAPAKSHE, President’s Counsel November 3, 2017, 12:00 pm (Continued From yesterday) People’s Lack of confidence in Parliament The media and the public always express their displeasure at Parliament and its members. They allege incompetence, corruption and immorality of the members of parliament. This loss of confidence reached its climax on 21st September 2017, […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardane Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President and Parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa, who participated in the debate on the constitutional reforms proposals, said the creation of ethnic or religion based federal units with powers akin to sovereign states will place the minorities living in those federal units at a disadvantage. He said, in India, […]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
DR. WIJEYADASA RAJAPAKSHE, President’s Counsel Courtesy The Island Continued From yesterday November 2, 2017, 12:00 pm Reasons for the failure of the proposed constitution Articles 75, 82 and 83 of the constitution have categorically conferred the power on the Parliament to repeal the existing constitution and replace it with a new one. The limitations of such […]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Courtesy The Island The UNP, the TNA, the SLFP and the JVP were engaged in a ‘constitutional conspiracy’, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Constitutional Assembly yesterday. Participating in the debate on the interim report of the steering committee of the Constitutional Assembly, the former President said: “Look at the manner in which the debate on […]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following are excerpts of a statement issued by former Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC regarding the much talked about Interim Report of the Steering Committee presented to parliament for debate. Interim Report submitted by the purported steering committee dated 21st September 2017 has no validity and authority Whose […]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that ‘manipulation’ by the government is glaringly obvious in the whole process of formulating a new Constitution and that the Joint Opposition is being provided with scarce opportunities to voice their opinions. Delivering a speech during the debate on the Interim Report of the Steering Committee at […]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
2017 නොවැම්බර් මස දෙවන දිනබ්රහස්පතින්දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ව්යවස්ථාදායක සභාවේදී හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කළ කතාවේ පිටපත. ගරු සභාපතිතුමනි, මේ ව්යවස්ථාදායක සභාව අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කිරීමේ ක්රියාවලිය පටන්ගත්තෙ මීට මාස 20කට පමණ කලින්. 2016 නොවැම්බර් මාසයේදී විවිධ යෝජනා අන්තර්ගත අනු කමිටු වාර්තා 06ක් පලවුණා. අපි අද විවාද කරන අතුරු වාර්තාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාගත කලේ පසුගිය සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ. […]
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island November 1, 2017, 10:03 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to meet intellectuals and professionals and seek their views on the proposed new Constitution. The question is why he waited till the constituent assembly process got underway to have such lekgotlas. Anyway, better late than never! Constitution making is too serious a […]
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
by Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island There is no point in debating the interim report of the Constitutional Assembly Steering Committee as the final draft of proposed constitution has already been prepared by the US and given to the government, UPFA Kandy District MP Keheliya Rambukwella says. In a brief interview with The Island, the former […]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
lanka C news පසුගිය දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දි සම්මත් කරගත් කාන්තා නියෝජනය 30% තිබිය යුතුය යයි ගැසට් කල කෙටුම්පතට සම්පූර්ණයෙන් ඉවත් කොට අලුත් මැතිවරණ ක්රමයක් ආදේශකරන කෙටුම්පතක් හරහා පලාත් සභා මැතිවරණ කල් දැමීමට ගෙනා යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සම්මත කර ගැනිම නිසා ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්යය බලය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව උල්ලංඝනය වී ඇතැයි සරත් එන්. සිල්වා හිටපු අගවිනිසුරුවයා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ […]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror I was embarrassed at the way amendments were brought to the PC Elections Act We cannot have legislations passed in this manner in the future I am hopeful that there won’t be repetition of it in the future Awaiting to see what the court ruling on the Act is […]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
J A L Jayasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror Those who are now in the forefront of bringing a New Constitution are those who maintained that terrorism can never be defeated and peace would never dawn in our country. The LTTE and the Diaspora are involved in bringing a New Constitution, said former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa […]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
By Prof Channa Jayasumana Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is currently a debate about the drafting of a ‘New Constitution’ for the country among the academic community and the general public in Sri Lanka. This started with the appointment of a 19-member Committee headed by Lal Wijenayake called the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reforms. Its […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2017
lanka C news ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අද (30) සිට ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයක් ලෙස ආරම්භ වී දින 3 සාකච්ඡා කිරිමට සුදානම් කිරිම ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි නිති විරෝධී ක්රියාවක් බව මෙරටේ නීති විශාරදයකු වු ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ හිටපු අධිකරණය අමාත්ය ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්රකාශ කර සිටි. අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කිරිම වෙනුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලයක් පත්කිරිමට 1978 […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2017
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, ‘The softening of our stance concerning certain issues, and the compromise we show in other issues, are diplomatic strategies to ensure that we do not alienate the international community. They are not indications that we have abandoned our fundamental objectives….The current practices of the international community may give us an opportunity to achieve, […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2017
Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement The Sri Lankan people are today alarmed by the proposed constitution which they feel will only end up dividing the country. The proposed constitution includes all the elements of a federal system which is unacceptable to all patriotic Sri Lankans. We already have a constitution inclusive of a provincial council system. […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2017
By Tamara Kunanayakam A radical overhaul is underway – of our political, economic, financial, social and cultural system. A new Constitution is being discussed, at the same time a plethora of radical reforms are being rushed through. The fact that many of these reforms are being challenged as unconstitutional indicates that the new Constitution is […]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
Upali Cooray Agitated over the decision by the Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters following a two hour meeting, some critics have expressed the Sangha as despotic. The Anunayake of the Malwatta Vihara has commented that the proposed constitution is not suitable as it leads to division of power including assigning of powers to the provincial councils, […]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
By Manushi Silva Courtesy The Island Chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura University,Professor Ven. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Thero said that the preparation of the constitution is already complete. A responsible personnel of the government made me aware that the constitution is already prepared although that we; the clergy are opposing the constitution alleging that no bill was put forward, but only […]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Courtesy Ceylon Today Governor of the Southern Province and Leader of the Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya, Hemakumara Nanayakkara, who severely criticizes the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Steering Committee for Constitutional Amendments, states that it may lead to separatism and may harm the sovereignty and the integrity of the country. He alleged that the […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
ගත වෙන්නේ රට බෙදන අවසන් පැය කිහිපයයි
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
ලසිත දුමින්ද උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රටට ආදරයක් තිබේනම් යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට විරුද්ධව ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කරන ලෙසට ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. ‘ලංකාව ඔරුමිත්තනාඩුවක් නොකරනු – බෙදුම්වාදී ව්යවස්ථා එපා’ යන තේමාව යටතේ තුම්මුල්ල සම්බුද්ධත්ව ජයන්ති මන්දිරයේ ඊයේ (27 වැනිදා) සංවිධානය කර තිබූ මාධ්ය හමුවකදී උන්වහන්සේ එසේ ප්රකාශ කළහ. […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera A new Constitution has been drafted and is being presented in parliament on October 30, 2017 for three days of debate and adoption which would lead to the formation of a federal state, and even the ultimate break-up of the country as sought by the Tamil separatists at an early date in the […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව, සයිටම් අර්බුදය , මහා බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචාව, ජීවන වියදම, වැඩවර්ජන හා උද්ඝෝෂණ ආදී ප්රශ්න නිසා දිගින් දිගටම රට තුළ නොසන්සුන්තාව පැතිර යද්දි මේ ප්රශ්න එකිනෙක විසඳා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ ඇතැම් ඇමතිවරු දැඩි මුරණ්ඩු ස්ථාවරයක සිටීම ආණ්ඩුවේ පැවැත්මට අහිතකර ලෙස බලපාන බව පෙනේ. මේ මුරණ්ඩු ඇමතිවරුන් දෙතුන්දෙනකු නිසා […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island October 27, 2017, 9:48 pm “Ranil used the term asymmetrical federalism, which is federalism [but] with more powers given to the Tamil Northeast…” (Solheim, in To End a Civil War,Salter, p96) “…the only viable solution was…a federal constitution…” (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, SJV Chelvanayakam memorial lecture, April 2015) “…Which makes […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
අරුණ බෝගහවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට වඩා රටේ ඇතිවෙලා තිබෙන ප්රශ්න එකින් එක සොයා බලා ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවිය යුතු බවත් ජාතිවාදීන්ට උඩගෙඩි දෙන අනවශ්ය ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒම රට නැවතත් ආපස්සට තල්ලු කිරීමක් බවත් ජාතික මහ සභාවේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පූජ්ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. යහපාලනයක් ඇතිකිරීම සඳහා පැවැති රජය පරාජය කර නව රජය බලයට […]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
චමින්ද සිල්වා,උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක ඡන්දයකින් සම්මත කරගත්ත ද එය ජනමත විචාරණයකට යැමේදී බහුතර ජන මතයකින් පරාජය කිරීමට මහා සංඝරත්නය පෙරටුව කටයුතු කරන බව ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ කුලපති මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන නාහිමියෝ ඊයේ (24 දා) පැවසූහ. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටු අතුරු වාර්තාව පිළිබඳව අදහස් දැක්වීම සඳහා […]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) today said the interim report compiled by the Constitutional Steering Committee was the ‘foetus’ of a future ‘devil child.’ PHU Leader MP Udaya Gammanpila said the government bigwigs continue to say that the opposition MPs had been scared for no reason and that not […]
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