{"id":71028,"date":"2017-10-25T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71028"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:49:37","slug":"interim-report-a-foetus-of-a-devil-child-phu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/25\/interim-report-a-foetus-of-a-devil-child-phu\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim report ‘a foetus of a devil child’: PHU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) today said the interim report compiled by the Constitutional Steering Committee was the \u2018foetus\u2019 of a future \u2018devil child.\u2019<\/p>\n

PHU Leader MP Udaya Gammanpila said the government bigwigs continue to say that the opposition MPs had been scared for no reason and that not even a draft constitution had been prepared so far.<\/p>\n

Though the government has forgotten, we remember the content of the proposal approved on March 9, 2016 which was about a new Constitution. If the interim report was approved, a draft constitution will be presented in Parliament. If Parliament gives it the two third majority, it will be subjected to a referendum,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said, similar to how medical doctors could determine the state of an illness with the help of a scan, legislators can determine whether the steering committee report was good or bad.<\/p>\n

The MP questioned as to why a steering committee headed by the Prime Minister was appointed if the committee report had no value.<\/p>\n

Why was the committee convened on 73 occasions wasting public funds?,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Referring to the Maha Sangha’s opposition for a new Constitution, he said the government should consider the opinions of the Maha Sangha.<\/p>\n

He also said that if a referendum was held with regard to a new Constitution, the people in the North will opt for a federal state. If a federalist constitution was given approval, it will lead to a division of the country, and if defeated will lead to a foreign intervention,\u201d he said.\u00a0()<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) today said the interim report compiled by the Constitutional Steering Committee was the \u2018foetus\u2019 of a future \u2018devil child.\u2019 PHU Leader MP Udaya Gammanpila said the government bigwigs continue to say that the opposition MPs had been scared for no reason and that not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028","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=71028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}