Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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by M.A. Sumanthiran
Today in this House it is the UNP that is in Government. The responsibility is with you.
The Prime Minister became the Chairman of the Steering Committee that has met over 80 times and has brought two comprehensive reports. The second one includes a draft of the constitution made by the experts to the steering committee.
The Prime Minister comes to the constitutional...
Since we are also currently discussing the head of expenditure for the Supreme Court, I wish to raise a few points. Last month when we had a debate in Parliament, there were members from both sides who said ‘the Supreme Court is independent now – see how they ruled in November and December’. Therefore, they said ‘we don’t need international judges for accountability.’...
The topic given to me is about constitutional reforms and the constitution making exercise from a Northern perspective, and looking at it from a Northern perspective, I think this whole exercise is nearing a century, and we still haven’t resolved it.
If I had to take our minds back to the time this whole exercise began in the early 1900s – the attempt at independence, or...