{"id":50783,"date":"2016-01-05T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50783"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:45:14","slug":"parliament-has-no-right-to-formulate-a-new-constitution-nalaka-thero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/05\/parliament-has-no-right-to-formulate-a-new-constitution-nalaka-thero\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament has no right to formulate a new Constitution: Nalaka Thero"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The current Parliament has no right to form a \u2018Constitutional Council\u2019 to formulate a new Constitution, President of the National Movement to Protect Soldiers Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero says.<\/p>\n<p>The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (05).<\/p>\n<p>Some politicos, who had been rejected by the people at the election, are still in Parliament. Thus, the present Parliament does not represent the voice of the people\u201d, said Nalaka Thero.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Govt. has no right to bring new constitution: Nalaka Thero\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/StUD6YE2Fe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Thero pointed out these \u2018rejected\u2019 politicians have no right to be a part of the Constitutional Council. This is against the democracy,\u201d Nalaka Thero said.<\/p>\n<p>Nalaka Thero also slammed the government for not doing \u2018enough\u2019 to ensure the National Security. After this government came to power, it did nothing, but trivialized and undermined the National Security,\u201d the Thero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The current Parliament has no right to form a \u2018Constitutional Council\u2019 to formulate a new Constitution, President of the National Movement to Protect Soldiers Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (05). Some politicos, who had been rejected by the people at [&hellip;]<\/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-50783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783","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=50783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}