Saturday, January 14, 2017

Whither the Constitution?

Good subcommittee reports; political omens not so good

President at Asgiriya Temple with Ven. Warakagoda Dhamasiddi Gnanarathana Thero

by Kumar David-January 14, 2017, 7:22 pm

The good news is that the six subcommittees (Fundamental Rights, Judiciary, Finance, Law & Order, Public Service and on Centre-Periphery Relations) have submitted their reports; all good work and if the exercise keeps on track this constitution could be much better than its predecessors of 1972 and 1978. It is not often that one has an opportunity to congratulate our MP’s; so well done! This piece deals with the main points; Dr Jayampathy Wickremeratne has a 70 page softcopy tabular comparison of the existing and proposed versions.