There can be no amendments to impeachment –Ravi ; No acting CJ’s can be appointed -Weliamuna
(Lanka-e-News- 12.Nov.2012, 8.30PM) UNP Stalwart and senior politician Ravi Karunanayake said, after an impeachment motion is tabled in Parliament , no amendments or interpolations can be made to it.
Ravi Karunanayake when speaking to Lanka e news , while answering the query that some Govt. MP’s are trying to rectify the illegalities and flaws ridden impeachment motion via an amendment to be handed over to the Speaker , gave the reply in the aforementioned paragraph.
Ravi Karunanayake added , no such amendments can be made in rectification , however if necessary , a fresh impeachment motion can be tabled, but that will mean that , the whole world will be made to reel with laughter at this buffoonery of the Govt. and the tomfoolery of its politicos on such a serious subject. ‘We will be voluntarily exposing our Parliament to disgrace before the world’, he noted.
Ravi speaking further ,replying to the query on whether the CJ is to be removed from office because an impeachment motion has been tabled , and an acting CJ is to be appointed, recalled when an impeachment motion was brought by the UNP against Sarath N Silva when he was CJ , Sarath Silva without any hindrance , continued in office as the CJ and heard cases. Karunanayake also turned round and questioned , when an impeachment motion was brought forward against Premadasa when he was the President , whether late Premadasa resigned his post of Presidency , and another person acted for him?
When Lanka e news referred this issue to senior reputed Lawyer C Weliamuna , he rejected such replacements. He asserted , somebody can be appointed to act for the CJ only if the CJ goes abroad or is in ill health. He emphasized that that there is no legal requirement anywhere ,simply because an impeachment motion is tabled , the CJ should cease hearing cases.
Batty Weerakoon , a senior Lawyer and a constitution veteran , recently, commenting to the newspapers said, the Govt. publicizing the impeachment motion immediately after it been handed over to the speaker is an absolutely wrong action. Speaker Rajapakse had breached the traditions when he publicized it to the media whereby , a wide media publicity was given to the alleged charges. Consequently , the Lawyers of the CJ , also were compelled to give answers to them via the media. The media too started speaking openly about the grave flaws and faults in the impeachment , he observed.
(Lanka-e-News- 12.Nov.2012, 8.30PM) UNP Stalwart and senior politician Ravi Karunanayake said, after an impeachment motion is tabled in Parliament , no amendments or interpolations can be made to it.Ravi Karunanayake when speaking to Lanka e news , while answering the query that some Govt. MP’s are trying to rectify the illegalities and flaws ridden impeachment motion via an amendment to be handed over to the Speaker , gave the reply in the aforementioned paragraph.
Ravi Karunanayake added , no such amendments can be made in rectification , however if necessary , a fresh impeachment motion can be tabled, but that will mean that , the whole world will be made to reel with laughter at this buffoonery of the Govt. and the tomfoolery of its politicos on such a serious subject. ‘We will be voluntarily exposing our Parliament to disgrace before the world’, he noted.
Ravi speaking further ,replying to the query on whether the CJ is to be removed from office because an impeachment motion has been tabled , and an acting CJ is to be appointed, recalled when an impeachment motion was brought by the UNP against Sarath N Silva when he was CJ , Sarath Silva without any hindrance , continued in office as the CJ and heard cases. Karunanayake also turned round and questioned , when an impeachment motion was brought forward against Premadasa when he was the President , whether late Premadasa resigned his post of Presidency , and another person acted for him?
When Lanka e news referred this issue to senior reputed Lawyer C Weliamuna , he rejected such replacements. He asserted , somebody can be appointed to act for the CJ only if the CJ goes abroad or is in ill health. He emphasized that that there is no legal requirement anywhere ,simply because an impeachment motion is tabled , the CJ should cease hearing cases.
Batty Weerakoon , a senior Lawyer and a constitution veteran , recently, commenting to the newspapers said, the Govt. publicizing the impeachment motion immediately after it been handed over to the speaker is an absolutely wrong action. Speaker Rajapakse had breached the traditions when he publicized it to the media whereby , a wide media publicity was given to the alleged charges. Consequently , the Lawyers of the CJ , also were compelled to give answers to them via the media. The media too started speaking openly about the grave flaws and faults in the impeachment , he observed.
