Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Two Constitutions Of Sri Lanka
Is the 13th Amendment: coming, going or gone? It is the question about which Sri Lankans are beating out their brains out and so are the Indians. Has Mahinda Rajapaksa accepted the 13th Amendment and will he implement it or he has decided—as we Sri Lankans say— to ‘quietly forget about it’?
Mahinda Rajapaksa meets S. M. Krishna
Who is lying?
Did he tell Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna when he visited Sri Lanka in January that the 13th Amendment Plus would be implemented or did Krishna make it all up when he said at press Conference that Rajapaksa agreed to implement the 13th Amendment? Or did Rajapaksa play and Indian rope- trick on the Indian Foreign Minister? Did Rajapaksa tell Sushima Swaraj the Leader of the Lok Sabha (Lower House) who led a delegation of Indian MPs to Lanka that the 13th Amendment Plus would be implemented or was the honourable Leader of the Opposition of the Lok Sabha lying? Or was our leader lying? But whether the 13th Amendment is implemented or not it has been enacted into the Sri Lanka Constitution for a near 25 years and been there all the while. So what happens to the 13th Amendment?Read More »
Did he tell Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna when he visited Sri Lanka in January that the 13th Amendment Plus would be implemented or did Krishna make it all up when he said at press Conference that Rajapaksa agreed to implement the 13th Amendment? Or did Rajapaksa play and Indian rope- trick on the Indian Foreign Minister? Did Rajapaksa tell Sushima Swaraj the Leader of the Lok Sabha (Lower House) who led a delegation of Indian MPs to Lanka that the 13th Amendment Plus would be implemented or was the honourable Leader of the Opposition of the Lok Sabha lying? Or was our leader lying? But whether the 13th Amendment is implemented or not it has been enacted into the Sri Lanka Constitution for a near 25 years and been there all the while. So what happens to the 13th Amendment?Read More »
