A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, November 30, 2017
‘Time is opportune to formulate new constitution’
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
“The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP)
have formed a consensus government to finalise and adopt a new
constitution for Sri Lanka as we do not know who would be elected as the
Executive President in the future; so let's use this opportunity for
the betterment of the country," Finance and Media Minister Mangala
Samaraweera said.
He was addressing the gathering at the third ‘Sathyagraha’ campaign,
‘6.2 million on alert’, which is carried out island-wide, held opposite
the Sacred Bo Tree in Matara last Friday (24) evening. TNA MP M. A.
Sumanthiran, Ven. Dambara Amila Thera, NSSP Leader Vikramabahu
Karunaratne, religious leaders and activists who supported the National
Movement for a Just Society attended.
“The government of good governance proved that no one is above the law
by Prime Minister's presence at the Bond Commission.” the Minister said.
“Power should be devolved for every citizen to live amicably as one
family and Sri Lanka to prevail as ‘one nation’,” TNA MP M. A.
Sumanthiran said.
He related a story of a family of three girls and a boy. "They were to
decide where they were going to spend their school vacations. "Every
time a vote was taken, the girls had the majority until the boy was
forced to revolt against the democratic process,” he said.
Ven. Dambara Amila thera said the late minister, N. M. Perera, forecast
that the executive powers vested by the new constitution formulated by
the National Assembly in 1978 would be disastrous someday for the
country.
NSSP Leader Dr. Vikramabahu Karunaratne said MP Sumanthiran was in
Matara to address people of the south in Sinhala because he has faith in
the present government.
“In the past, northern politicians who addressed people of the south in
Sinhala were assassinated by northern extremists. "Sumanthiran has
ignored this threat as this duration may be the last opportunity to
adopt a new constitution,” he said.