Author Archive for New Constitution

THE ILLEGALITY OF THE ONGOING CONSTITUTION-MAKING PROCESS IN SRI LANKA

Sunday, January 1st, 2017

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA In this article I shall briefly explain why in my view the present constitution-making process in this country is illegal.  My argument is based on three considerations:  the difference between the amending procedure as set out in Chapter 12 of the constitution, and the present procedure; the nature of the power that Parliament […]

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Two Key Safeguards that the New Constitution will not have

Sunday, January 1st, 2017

Dr. A.C. Visvalingam Courtesy The Island December 31, 2016, 7:00 pm The contents of the proposed new Constitution are yet to be finalised by Parliament. Nevertheless, many key safeguards will not be included in it because our politicians, barring a few exceptions, would find such provisions inimical to their all-consuming self-interest. It would take up too […]

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රට වනසන ව්‍යවස්ථා මර උගුලට එරෙහි බොදු මහා සමුළුව ජනවාරි 07 සවස 02ට-බොදු බල සේනා

Friday, December 30th, 2016

බොදු බල සේනා මාධ්‍ය අංශය රට වනසන ව්‍යවස්ථා මර උගුලට එරෙහිව ජනවාරි 07 සවස 02ට නුගේගොඩ ආනන්ද සමරකෝන් එළිමහන් රංග පීටයේදී පැවැත්වෙන බොදු මහා සමුළුව පිලිබදව බොදු බල සේනා මහ ලේකම් රාජකීය පණ්ඩිත ගලගොඩඇත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමි දැක්වූ අදහස්; විශේෂයෙන් අද දවස වෙද්දි රටේ දැඩි කථා බහකට ලක් වෙච්ච ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය හරහා මේ රට බෙදීමට එරෙහිව, […]

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”බෙදුම්වාදීන් ගේ උපායමාර්ග හා ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන”-කෘතිය ජනගත කිරීම

Thursday, December 29th, 2016

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා පිළිබඳ ප්‍රමාණික විශාරදයකු වන ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මනෝහර ආර්ග ද සිල්වා මහතා විසින් රචනා කරන ලද ”බෙදුම්වාදීන් ගේ උපායමාර්ග හා ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන” නමැති ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 13, 16, 17 සහ 19 ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයන්, 2000 වර්ෂයේ දී යෝජිත ව්‍යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පත හා 2016 නව ව්‍යවස්ථා යෝජනා පිළිබඳ විවරණයක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන මාහැඟි කෘතිය 2017 ජනවාරි 06 […]

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Sri Lanka Global Forum visits Asgiri Mahanayake Thero

Thursday, December 29th, 2016

Sri Lanka Global Forum visits Asgiri Mahanayake Thero ගෝලීය සංසඳයත් නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එරෙහිව මහනායක හිමියන් දැනුවත්කරයි

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Why constitutional reforms?

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island December 26, 2016, 8:08 pm What is the compulsion for constitutional reforms? Would these reforms be so extensive as to warrant a ‘new’ constitution, or would they be limited to specific issues that could be incorporated as amendments to the existing constitution? These are some of the questions in the […]

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Devolution of police powers to provinces: A recipe for disaster

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

by Gamini Gunawardane Retd. Snr. DIG Courtesy The Island December 26, 2016, 7:59 pm A proposal to devolve police Powers to the Provinces has been made again. Under the yahapalana government’s constitutional reform project, the strict implementation of the provisions for devolution of police powers under the 13th Amendment and more is proposed by the Sub-Committee […]

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Provincial Governors with more powers needed to protect unitary status

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

 By Kelum Bandara  Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of proposals for the reduction of powers of provincial governors in the new Constitution, Southern Province Governor Hemakumara Nanayakkara spoke out against the move. In an interview with , he says a Governor should have more powers to protect the unitary status and to prevent […]

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ජනාධිපති බලගතු තීරණයක්‌ ගනී

Saturday, December 24th, 2016

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය, සමන් ගමගේ සහ චමින්ද සිල්වා උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ සැකසීම සඳහා වන ව්‍යවස්‌ථාදායක අනුකමිටුවේ නිර්දේශ පිළිනොගැනීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා තීරණය කර ඇත. මේ බව ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ නියෝජිත පිරිසක්‌ සමඟ 22 වැනිදා පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකදී හෙතෙම ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබේ. මෙතෙක්‌ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඒකීය රාජ්‍යයක්‌ ලෙස හැඳින්වුවද ව්‍යවස්‌ථාදායක අනුකමිටුව මගින් එය එක්‌සත් […]

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මේක NGO කාරයන් හදන අමු ජාතිවාදී ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් – ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ මනෝහර ද සිල්වා

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

ෆෙඩරල් සංහිඳියා නිරුවත සම්මන්ත්‍රණය 2016-12-19 කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවනාගාරය

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Will defeat new constitution if proposals ignored – Dinesh

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

Will defeat new constitution if proposals ignored – Dinesh කරුණු 14 න් පිට පැන්නොත් අපි පණත පරාජය කරනවා.

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Constitution making process: JO spells out non-negotiable conditions, urges govt. to reveal UNP-SLFP proposals

Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 21, 2016, 12:00 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday stressed that its participation in the ongoing constitutional making process would be subject to 14 non-negotiable conditions. The JO grouping comprises 51 members of parliament elected on the UPFA ticket at Aug 17, 2015 parliamentary polls. JO leader Dinesh Gunawardena and […]

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No response from govt on JO’s proposals – Dinesh

Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

The Government has turned a blind eye to the 14 proposals of the Joint Opposition with respect of the proposed new Constitution, the JO asserted on Wednesday.

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Abusing Democracy…? An unnecessary Constitution

Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today “A Constitution is expected to consolidate all the imaginable ‘safeguards’ to protect and preserve human rights, incorporating all the practical facilitations to make all those rights achievable. It has to be the best framework to feel the pulse of the people and capable of guaranteeing aspirations of the people. The […]

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බලය බෙදීම ක්‍රියාත්මක වුණොත් කෑලි නවයකට රට කැඩෙනවා

Thursday, December 22nd, 2016

නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම උපුටා ගැන්ම Ceylon Leader December 18, 2016 විධායක ජනාධිපති බලතල අහෝසි කිරීම සහ පවතින මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමය වෙනස්‌ කිරීම මේ ආණ්‌ඩුව පත්වනවිට ජනතාවට දුන් ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රතිඥා දෙකකි. නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ සම්පාදනය කිරීමේ අරමුණ එය බව ප්‍රකාශ වුවද යෝජිත නව ආණ්‌ඩු ක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවෙන් ද ජනාධිපති බලතල එලෙසින්ම පවත්වාගෙන යැමට යෝජනා වී ඇතැයි පසුගියදා ප්‍රකාශ විය. […]

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A monster in the making

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 19, 2016, 8:06 pm Apologists for the incumbent government claim that some powers of the executive presidency have been curtailed. True, there has been some tinkering with the JRJ Constitution. But, the fact remains that the pledge to abolish the executive presidency has been reneged on and the promised radical break […]

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Do we need a new constitution?

Monday, December 19th, 2016

By Fr. J.C. Pieris December 18, 2016, 9:17 pm What are the needs of the country? Isn’t finding out what the country urgently needs is where we should start off from, to put things right in the country? Let us begin. In my opinion the top priority need is elimination of poverty. Do we need […]

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Statement of the National Joint Committee on the Report submitted by the Centre-Periphery Sub-Committee on Constitutional Reform

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

The National Joint Committee Press Release  The Government on the 19th of November presented to Parliament several reports of subcommittees appointed by them on constitutional reform, which includes reports on centre-periphery relations and police powers. The subcommittee on centre-periphery relations was chaired by Mr Dharmalingam Siddharthan Member of Parliament. The report in its introduction states that […]

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Wooing a spent force

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

Editorial Courtesy The Island  December 16, 2016, 9:50 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan have, with the blessings of President Maithripala Sirisena, sought former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s support for the government’s constitutional efforts, according to a recent Hindu report. Why is the government so keen to involve Rajapaksa in its constitution […]

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No clear Govt reaction to Executive Presidency

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Ceylon Today said, the government has not yet declared its official stance on the Executive Presidency The government must tell us what stand it has adopted on the Executive Presidency; whether it will abolish it […]

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Sri Lanka New Constitutional Proposals – Comparisons with GL-Neelan Package

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge  Efforts to tweak Sri Lanka’s constitution is nothing new. Several mischievous attempts had been made to dilute the sovereignty of Sri Lanka by creating issues, hyping these to levels where solutions had been to dilute the sovereignty. Language issue was flogged to create the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact of 1957 followed by the Dudly-Chelvanayagam […]

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පළාත්සභාවලට ස්වාධීන බලතල.. විසුරුවාහැරීමේ බලයත් ජනපතිගෙන් ගිලිහෙයි

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

මනෝඡ් අබයදීර දිවයින ඉඩම්, පොලිස්‌ සහ මුදල් පිළිබඳ පූර්ණ බලතල පළාත් සභා සඳහා ලබාදීමටත් පළාත් සභා විසුරුවා හැරීමේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට දැනට ඇති බලතල සීමා කිරීමටත් නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවට යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මෙම යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්තේ නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව පිළිබඳ යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා පත්කළ උපකමිටු හයෙන් එකක්‌ වන මධ්‍ය පරිධිය සබඳතා පිළිබඳ උප කමිටුව […]

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Constitutional reform programme launched amidst chaos in the country – Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Adaderana December 4, 2016  03:32 pm  Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has highlighted some of the ‘most harmful’ recommendations that have been submitted to the constitutional reform programme. Issuing a statement on Sunday, he stated I request all members of the SLFP serving in this government not to allow their enslavement to the UNP to go so […]

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නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ අවශ්‍යද?

Sunday, December 4th, 2016

කැප්පිටියාගොඩ සිරිවිමල මහා ස්‌ථවිර Divaina ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, සංහිඳියාව යන්නද අද රටට ජාතියට බරපතළ උවදුරකි. උතුරු නැඟෙනහිර සිංහලයන් පළවාහරින්න යම් යම් බලවේග ක්‍රියාකරන නමුත් සංහිඳියාව යන මායාවෙන් ඒවා වැසී තිබෙනවා. මේ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධානවලට සංහිඳියා වැඩපිළිවෙළ නොපවරන්න. එය මේ රටේ මහා සංඝයාට පවරන්න. මේ රටේ මුස්‌ලිම්වරු අතීතයේ සිට ඇසුරු කළේ භික්‌ෂුන් වහන්සේය. රජමහා විහාරවල ඉඩකඩම්වල පදිංචි වීමට […]

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Statement of the National Joint Committee on the Report Submitted by the Centre-Periphery Sub-Committee on Constitutional Reforms

Sunday, December 4th, 2016

PRESS RELEASE Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement The Government on the 19th of November presented to Parliament several reports of subcommittees appointed by them on constitutional reform, which includes reports on centre-periphery relations and police powers.   The subcommittee on centre-periphery relations was chaired by Mr Dharmalingam Siddharthan Member of Parliament. The report in its introduction […]

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Proposed Federal or Eelam Constitution Proposes to Abolish the Concurrent List, Grant Land, Police, Administrative Services, Fiscal and National Planning Powers to the Provincial Councils and Make the Governor a Mare (Laughable) Figurehead

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement This is what the treacherous Ranil, Sirisena, CBK and Mangala are planning to do as forced upon them by the US, UK, EU, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the TNA and all other separatists. Please reject this Federal or Eelam Constitution in total if you have even an ounce of sense. Not even […]

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New Police structure and Emergency Laws Constitutional Assembly: Report of the Police, Law and Order Subcommittee

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

By C. A. Chandraprema Police powers were among the most contentious topics in the whole devolution debate and the provisions of the 13th Amendment in this connection were never implemented by any government over the past three decades, because it would have rendered the country ungovernable. Now however, the Police Law and Order Subcommittee proposes […]

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Changes to Judiciary and Fundamental Law Constituent Council: Reports of Judiciary & Fundamental Rights Subcommittees

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy: Island The report of the Subcommittee on the judiciary observes that there is no express provision in the Constitution stressing the importance of the principle of judicial independence and aims to remedy that perceived lacuna by recommending the adoption of a provision in the constitution of South Africa which says […]

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Human Rights, Constitutional Reform and Devolution in Sri Lanka

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016

By Dr. Asoka Bandarage, Nov. 20, 2016 Significant efforts have been taken towards reconciliation and integration of the Tamil minority in the Sri Lankan political system since the defeat of the LTTE (terrorists) in May 2009. However, the Tamil separatist movement has not been halted. It is pursuing a separate state through political means, demanding […]

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පළාත්සභාවලට ස්වාධීන බලතල.. විසුරුවාහැරීමේ බලයත් ජනපතිගෙන් ගිලිහෙයි

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016

මනෝඡ් අබයදීර දිවයින  ඉඩම්, පොලිස්‌ සහ මුදල් පිළිබඳ පූර්ණ බලතල පළාත් සභා සඳහා ලබාදීමටත් පළාත් සභා විසුරුවා හැරීමේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට දැනට ඇති බලතල සීමා කිරීමටත් නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවට යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මෙම යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්තේ නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව පිළිබඳ යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා පත්කළ උපකමිටු හයෙන් එකක්‌ වන මධ්‍ය පරිධිය සබඳතා පිළිබඳ උප කමිටුව […]

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