{"id":94763,"date":"2019-11-03T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94763"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:01:50","slug":"do-not-endorse-the-millennium-challenge-corporation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/03\/do-not-endorse-the-millennium-challenge-corporation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"DO NOT ENDORSE THE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION BILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We would like to request the President in connection with the highly irregular and\u00a0 &#8216;unethical&#8217; manner in which the Prime Minister and the ministers have approved the above bill when the country is facing an election to choose the President to take over the affairs of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> According to section 42 of the Constitution, the President is the head of the Cabinet and hence we believe that you have the power to reject approval of the above bill which is being rushed before the pending Presidential election. Besides, for all intentions and purposes the present Government is functioning in the mode of Caretaker Government and we firmly believe that such a legislative assembly cannot take action on a bill such as MCC which will have far-reaching impact on the economy as well as the\u00a0social, defense and security-related areas of the country&#8217;s governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nThe basic question is should the country be &#8216;sold&#8217; for $480 million especially\naffecting the administration and control over 1\/3 of the country&#8217;s land area\nincluding the millions of members of the peasantry who will be bought over by\nthe multi-national companies like what happened in the Latin America countries\nreducing the peasantry to indentured labor. Further, the area demarcated for\nMCC control includes the priceless Cultural Triangle which encompasses&nbsp;\nthe ancient institutions of Sri Lanka&#8217;s civilization,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also request the general public to promote and to convert the coming election to a referendum on the MCC Bill and REJECT\u00a0 the proponents and the objectives of the MCC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA We would like to request the President in connection with the highly irregular and\u00a0 &#8216;unethical&#8217; manner in which the Prime Minister and the ministers have approved the above bill when the country is facing an election to choose the President to take over the affairs of the country. According to section 42 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94763","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=94763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}