Constitutional Assembly Demanded by LTTE Diaspora and Norway

Joint opposition alleged that the government was planning to introduce constitutional reforms which include the scraping of the unitary state and forming Union of Federal State in North, East, Central and Rest of the Island as South.  Further new constitution which is being drafted by on the advised of LTTE Tamil diaspora, Norwegians and Indians has scrapped the foremost priority given to Buddhism but has given the priority to among other minority religion upon demanded by US and EU backed church.

National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa said such a move would violate the current constitution, parliamentary tradition and the peoples’ mandate.

Mr. Weerawansa said at the presidential election,the government had pledged it would not amend any constitutional clauses,which had to be put to a referendum.

“The Government has broken its promise made to the people at the presidential election on upholding the unitary state and priority given to Buddhism. Minister Champika Ranawaka was very vociferous about these matters at the time but today he is nowhere to be seen or heard these days,” Mr. Weerawansa said.

He told a news conference that the government was also planning to convert parliament into a Constitutional Assembly instead of appointing a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) and said that this too was contrary to the people’s mandate.

Further, Ranil Wickramasinghe has informed the joint opposition members that he will be aligned with pro-LTTE Tamil political party TNA on the new Constitution which is leading to division of the country and forming of Tamil eelam in Sri Lanka.

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