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The proposed amendments are highly against Tamil interests and TNA members have decided to vote against the move,” said Suresh Premachandran, MP of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). “So the TNA parliamentarians met today and we decided to oppose the 18th Amendments to the Constitution because it is highly against Tamil interests on the one hand. There are various reasons we can point out. “But at the moment, I can tell you one thing. On the one hand they are talking about the 13th Amendment and they said they were going to go beyond that. However the police commission, public service commission and all these commissions are taken away. So how can a minority party fighting for more devolution can be a party to it because basically they are taking all the power away from the Provincial Council,” said Premachandran. Meanwhile, Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva, Leader of the House says that the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill will be presented before Parliament today. He noted that this will be done by Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne. The minister also said that the government possessed the two-thirds majority required to endorse the Constitution. |
UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said this evening the party would continue to fight for democracy in an innovative way at this decisive juncture of the country as it h...
The JHU also said this measure should be taken to maintain good governance and strengthen people’s power. 
The proposed 18th amendment to the Constitution comes through, the Election Commission, whose members are the nominees of the President, will be in a position to contro...
He said “Ministers now say that an 18th amendment to the Constitution is needed in the country. They say that Singapore was developed due to the dictatorship of Lee Kua...
Saturday, 04 September 2010 02:12 Hiran The UNP is now in the process of taking steps to remove four senior members who have decided to vote with the Government for the c...
Sri Lanka's Left Liberation Front leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne urged the people to wear black clothes on September 08, the day when the 18th amendment to the const...
