The Supreme Court has determined that several clauses in the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution presented by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will have to be approved by a two-thirds Parliamentary majority as well as by the people at a referendum, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced in Parliament today (21).
The draft amendment had been presented by SJB General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara as a private member's bill. It was thereafter challenged at the SC by several petitioners by way of Fundamental Rights Petitions.
The funeral of arguably the Queen of the Sinhala cinema Malini Fonseka, will be held with state honours on Monday, May 26, 2025, at the Independence Square.
The NPP government has been at the wheel for almost 6 months now. The time to keep looking at the rear view mirror and living in the past is about over.
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