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President will not devolve power says Tissa Vitharana |
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2009-07-13 | 6.45 PM |
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Minister Tissa Vitharana addressing the politburo of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party has said the President had requested him to delay the proposals on devolving power to the north and east in line with the 13th amendment.
Vitharana had made this revelation at a heated politburo meeting of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party.
Prof Jayamapathy Wickremaratne, who attended the meeting, had questioned Vitharana continuously on the delay in presenting the proposals of the All Party Representative Committee (APRC). Wickremaratne had explained that there was no need to take so much time to discuss the basics of power devolution as it was discussed 76 times during former President Chandrika Kumaratunge’s term in office and was later presented |
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as a constitutional amendment in 2002.
Due to the heated discussion on the delay in the APRC proposals, Vitharana had been compelled to come out with a secret he had held on to all this while.
Vitharana had said the President had requested him not to present the proposals and to take more time for it. The President it is learnt had reiterated to Vitharana that although there was a necessity to present the proposals to minimize the agitation among the Tamil community, there was no need to quicken the process.
It was further revealed at this meeting that stories in the media that the President had shouted at the likes of Champika Ranawaka and Wimal Weerawansa for making statements against power devolution was a farce. The news of the President shouting at Ranawaka and Weerawansa had been released by the media unit maintained by Minister Dullas Alahapperuma.
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