{"id":42495,"date":"2015-03-20T22:50:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42495"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:11:38","slug":"pm-the-worst-authoritarian-ever-prof-rajiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/20\/pm-the-worst-authoritarian-ever-prof-rajiva\/","title":{"rendered":"PM the worst authoritarian ever – Prof. Rajiva"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0 Kishani Samaraweera\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0The Nation<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Former State Minister of Higher Education, Professor Rajiva Wijesinha, claimed that his Liberal Party is the only party which was not given a copy of the draft 19th Amendment to the Constitution when all the other parties were given a copy and were consulted regarding the issues afterwards. Prof. Wijesinha also pointed out that the gazetted draft bill is not the draft they agreed upon at the Party Leaders\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n

It is totally not what we agreed upon. It was completely a different version. I personally found it very outrageous because at the committee meeting the changes proposed by other parties were made crystal clear to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and he agreed to change the draft accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He expressed the fact that he will continue to support the government despite his defection and he is only against the way the Prime Minister is trying to take control of everything.<\/p>\n

The PM is the worst authoritarian ever. I am totally against this type of arbitrary control and he was not even elected by the public. The only issue the PM and Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne is concerned and obsessed about is transferring the powers of the Executive President to an Executive Prime Minister,\u201d said Prof. Wijesinha.<\/p>\n

He also proposed several amendments to the 19th Amendment and justified those with reasons. The President should not be allowed to advance the Presidential election to a date he wants, he should not be allowed to dissolve Parliament, nor should Parliament be dissolved before the end of its five year term, there should be fixed terms for elections and the Prime Minister should have nothing to do with the appointments which should be done by the office of the President are few of his proposals to be amended.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0 Kishani Samaraweera\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0The Nation Former State Minister of Higher Education, Professor Rajiva Wijesinha, claimed that his Liberal Party is the only party which was not given a copy of the draft 19th Amendment to the Constitution when all the other parties were given a copy and were consulted regarding the issues afterwards. Prof. Wijesinha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495","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=42495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}