{"id":92817,"date":"2019-09-02T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92817"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T22:53:30","slug":"end-of-road-for-13a-with-natural-death-for-provincial-councils-and-sajiths-commitment-for-maximum-devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/02\/end-of-road-for-13a-with-natural-death-for-provincial-councils-and-sajiths-commitment-for-maximum-devolution\/","title":{"rendered":"END OF ROAD  FOR 13A WITH NATURAL DEATH FOR PROVINCIAL COUNCILS  AND SAJITH\u2019S COMMITMENT FOR MAXIMUM DEVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A window of opportunity is open for the next generation of Nationalist Leaders to abrogate the Provincial Councils altogether in a New Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0 The political tussle which existed with conflicting groups of legislators virtually made the functioning of Provincial Councils defunct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sumanthiran\u2019s TNA and Hakeem\u2019s Muslim Parties have been twisting arms of the Executive President, the Executive Prime Minister with the blessings of the Speaker, which culminated over 3 years, in a political tug O war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TNA\nand SLMC will now be demanding from Leading contenders for Presidency to commit\nfor the provision of PCs, with Police and Land Powers. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nationalist&nbsp;\nSinhalese, Maha Sanga, Catholic and Muslim clergy need to educate the Voters to\nclearly identify the profile of suitability of candidates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Provincial Councils were an unnecessary decoration and a Superfluous Institution for Sri Lanka<\/strong>. Originally it was thought that PCs will solve most of the minority grievances, but the PC as a solution itself became a major problem, paving way for possible national disintegration and creating disunity amongst minorities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time UNP unofficial candidate Sajith Premadasa is committing maximum devolution of power for minorities, Nationalist Groups must now unite to scrap PCs altogether, through the mechanism of a New Constitution.\u00a0 It will provide upgrading the powers of the Executive President, thus providing constitutional delegation of powers for safeguarding<strong> the Unitary Status of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Draft Constitution must be placed before the Public, in the form of seeking Referendum. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sajith Premadasa will be a Puppet worse than Ranil. Except for his ability to built match-boxes, Sajith has no vision and will ruin the country acting in a short-sighted idiotic manner within a very short period of time. Sajith and JVP Anura Kumara are now on the same frequency, with TNA and SLMC.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\nsalute the decision of the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE A window of opportunity is open for the next generation of Nationalist Leaders to abrogate the Provincial Councils altogether in a New Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0 The political tussle which existed with conflicting groups of legislators virtually made the functioning of Provincial Councils defunct. Sumanthiran\u2019s TNA and Hakeem\u2019s Muslim Parties have been twisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92817","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=92817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}