{"id":118542,"date":"2021-09-24T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118542"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:44:47","slug":"limiting-parliament-representatives-to-100-by-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/24\/limiting-parliament-representatives-to-100-by-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"LIMITING PARLIAMENT REPRESENTATIVES TO 100 BY NEW CONSTITUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka has a critical debate about the number of representatives that should be in\nthe parliament and the debate has focused on various matters concerning many\nmatters of representatives such as minimum education qualifications, the limits\nof functional authority. The public has disappointed the value of services and\nthe productivity generated by representatives based on experiences published in\nmedia, many of these experiences published may not be true as they were\/are,\nafter few days people either ignore or forget such information. However, the\npoint that couldn\u2019t ignore is behavior and the real value of the service.  The expenses incurred for the representatives\ncompared to many other services in the country appear to be higher than the\nreal value of the services provided by representatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nrole of parliament representatives considers as a part of the government\nservice and the role of representatives adds a process of law-making in\naddition to the public service. In terms of law, lawmaking is not an executive\nrole, but they have become executives in the general administrative role that\nmeans in the provincial administrative roles, parliament representatives\nattempt to show the will of them are the law. \n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nany country, law-making would be an expensive and responsible service despite\npeople in Sri Lanka has habitual attempts to undermine the obliged status of\nthe service of law-making. Originally, the representation of parliament was\ndone by so-called respectable individuals who gained good education, skills,\nand experience.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nvariety of criteria are used to elect representatives by the election law and\nthe cost associated with these representatives seem to be higher and it also\nseems that Sri Lankans are a much-governed nation with the parliament and\ngoverning councils. The net worth of these many representations has been eroded\nby people, what were the reasons for such dig out is a complicated subject.  The cost associated with the representatives\nof the parliament in absolute terms may be higher, and it has become a popular\ngossip of people and is subject to terrible criticism. After the election in\n1970, the role of representatives has become a part of hatred party politics,\nand on many occasions have recorded those representatives of the parliament\nhave been taking revenge from opposition individuals in dealing with many\nroles. Sometimes, it was beyond humanity. In this way, the representatives of\nthe parliament encompass a broad criticism against them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nSri Lanka Podujana Peramuna promised before the election, a Constitutional\nCommittee has been appointed by the government that is being prepared a new\nconstitution, and the draft of the new constitution has not been yet come to\nexpress the opinion of people. In this process, the vital aspect would be\nlimiting the number of representatives to 100 is a requirement, and this means\nthe total number of representatives appointing and election for various\npurposes should not be gone above 100. This is a general feeling and is a\nreasonable representation of the country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nend of the British colonial period, the number of representatives in the\nparliament was limited to a reasonable volume, but later the limit has been\nchanged by demarcation and increased volume of representatives disregarding\nmany factors such as land area of the country, size of the population, issues\nof the country that should be looking after by representatives, etc. In many\nlarge countries, representatives of the Central Government have limited, and\nwhy Sri Lanka has gone breaking the rules of other countries? It seems that it\nhas been resulted by party politics in Sri Lanka because party leaders wanted\nto give opportunities to party men as a bribe and entertain family\nrelationships. The role of delimitation focussing to limit for 100\nrepresentatives in the new constitution would be appreciated by people and\ncertain roles should have refrained from the role of providing service by the\nnew constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nseems that the determination of the volume of representatives should not be associated\nwith party politics and the power of feudalist politics. There is nothing wrong\nwith giving reasonable consideration to ethnic groups, however, caste dictions,\nreligions, and feudalism should not be a factor allowing representation in\nparliament. If it considers the current parliament there are many family\nmembers of the Rajapaksa family represent the parliament and the public has\nstrong criticism about this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore,\nthe writers of the new constitution must limit the total number of members of\nthe Parliament to 100 and the cost would be saved from this exercise and could\nbe reduced by criticizing parliament representatives.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Sri Lanka has a critical debate about the number of representatives that should be in the parliament and the debate has focused on various matters concerning many matters of representatives such as minimum education qualifications, the limits of functional authority. The public has disappointed the value of services and the productivity generated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}