{"id":47335,"date":"2015-08-27T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47335"},"modified":"2015-08-27T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:12:09","slug":"ranils-lichchavi-administration-in-disarray-new-cabinet-to-be-sworn-in-postponed-to-sep-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/27\/ranils-lichchavi-administration-in-disarray-new-cabinet-to-be-sworn-in-postponed-to-sep-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil\u2019s Lichchavi administration in disarray, Cabinet swearing-in further delayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Lichchavi administration which Ranil Wickremasinghe proposed when he addressed the media for a special statement at the Temple Trees recently, gone into a terrible disarray due infighting between SLFP and UNP over the allocation of Ministries.<\/p>\n

\u00a0SLFP acting General Secretary Duminda Dissanayake today \u00a0(27\/08\/2005) said the swearing-in of the Cabinet would not likely to happen on September 2, as scheduled earlier. Addressing a news conference, he said a National Government should be formed through parliament and not through political parties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While introducing Lichchavi concept, which believed to be existed in 615 BC in the ancient feudal India where ruling power was shared between high cast kshatriya<\/a> varna<\/a>\u00a0(Cast), Ranil intends to introduce the same concept to the governing body of the modern Sri Lanka and claimed that the national frame-work which he is going to introduce is the Lichchavi Accord which is mostly known as working together with an utmost corporation and understanding among rulers.<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>The Licchavis were the most famous clan amongst the ruling confederate clans of the Vajji<\/a> mahajanapada<\/a> of ancient India and Nepal.Ultimate authority rested with the 7,707 raja<\/i> who met each year to elect one of their member as ruler and a council of nine to assist him. It was far from a democracy<\/a> as only a small portion of the Licchavi population qualified to vote. Those with raja<\/i> status were only the male heads of households who belonged to the kshatriya<\/a> varna<\/a>\u00a0(Cast).[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

However, during intense negotiation between parties involved since August 17, the concept of working together with an utmost corporation and understanding<\/u><\/strong> has been dissolved into a verbal infighting, backbiting and bickering exercise that the date for the new cabinet to be sworn in had to be further postponed until 4th\u00a0of September, even after the first session of the new parliament on 1st<\/sup> of September.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and three Cabinet Ministers of the new government have been sworn in so far.<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera, Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapaksa and Resettlement Minister D. M. Swaminathan took oath before the President on August 24<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) claimed that they have reached a final consensus over forming a National Government while the two major parties in the country have partially agreed<\/strong> on the ministerial portfolios that will be shared.<\/p>\n

According to some political source, the SLFP is to receive Highways, Higher Education, Irrigation, Agriculture and Samurdhi ministerial portfolios as per the initial discussions.<\/p>\n

While the SLFP had also sought the Public Administration ministerial portfolio, the UNP leadership had not agreed to this, the source said.<\/p>\n

SLFP believes it has been offered less powerful portfolios in the Cabinet. The party demands key posts and \u00a0is seeking portfolios such as Finance, and Power and Energy and Samurdhi Development, the political source said.<\/p>\n

To defuse the whole saga, UNP Chairman Malik Samarawickrama has now come out and said in a media statement that an agreement had been reached after extensive and cordial discussions with the SLFP (hic).<\/p>\n

Mr Samarawickrema has further dressed up his statement with fine reconciliatory words to the press and said The ultimate objective of both parties was to serve the people by moving away from the traditional political culture and ensuring the betterment of the nation without considering ministries and perks associated with them,\u201d and it was samarawicreama\u2019s conclusion that both parties had to make sacrifices in this endeavour.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it is reported that speaking to the Daily Mirror Samarawickrama has said there will be 30 Ministers initially divided among the UNP and the SLFP.<\/p>\n

However, his opinion was the number of Ministries would be increased with the approval of Parliament as per the 19th Amendment later.<\/p>\n

He has said the House would have a two day debate on September 3 and 4.\u00a0 The vote is expected to be taken up on September 4.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Samarawickrama has declined to divulge more details on how many ministries each party would get and what those ministries would be, hinting that infighting still to be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot News The Lichchavi administration which Ranil Wickremasinghe proposed when he addressed the media for a special statement at the Temple Trees recently, gone into a terrible disarray due infighting between SLFP and UNP over the allocation of Ministries. \u00a0SLFP acting General Secretary Duminda Dissanayake today \u00a0(27\/08\/2005) said the swearing-in of the Cabinet would not […]<\/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-47335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47335","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=47335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}