{"id":131874,"date":"2023-02-02T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131874"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:45:04","slug":"13th-amendment-should-not-be-enforced-chief-prelates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/02\/13th-amendment-should-not-be-enforced-chief-prelates\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Amendment should not be enforced \u2013 Chief Prelates."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Chief Prelates of the Three Chapters have accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of confusing the country following his statement on the implementation of the 13th Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter addressed to the Head of State today (02 Feb.), the religious leaders deemed the 13th Amendment as a piece of legislation that gives rise to serious concerns pertaining to the country\u2019s national security, territorial integrity and its independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They further noted that by implementing the 13th Amendment, police and land powers too, will be devolved to&nbsp;Provincial Councils, and thus asserted that the Amendment should not be enforced at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, President Wickremesinghe expressed the Cabinet\u2019s willingness pertaining to the full implementation of the 13th Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, he stated that the 13th Amendment will be implemented, in full, unless it is decided by the Party Leaders as to whether or not the Amendment should be abolished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached below is the relevant letter received by Wickremesinghe from the Chief Prelates;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhXIAz2J8bJhmrX7dn7zA-Sn7T1yHYohgVGRY8NUNs-n68cCef8OfSPsg8hIm57g2KYg8qXHmfCf6-ZG-ohABPThJ57rO_J3t2Yfvp0NEw_CB2om1Zbr30IVYc8akbUD7V5-pax5UeAuaprLu0npv752TaHUdVyOduZyXQhvgOIlgyl8Qcot5_R5cV7QA\/s1600\/asgiti-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Prelates of the Three Chapters have accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of confusing the country following his statement on the implementation of the 13th Amendment. In a letter addressed to the Head of State today (02 Feb.), the religious leaders deemed the 13th Amendment as a piece of legislation that gives rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13th-amendment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131874","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=131874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}