Dissolve Expert Committee - JVP, JHU

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka

The JVP and JHU yesterday called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to dissolve the Expert Committee appointed to extend legal expertise to the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) with immediate effect.

JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe writing a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday informed that the JVP will consider rejoining the APRC in an endeavour to formulate a solution to the North and East problem if the Expert Committee is dissolved.

He stressed in his letter that the JVP can not totally be a way from an effort to formulate a solution to the national question as a responsible political party.

JHU Policy Formulator Champika Ranawaka told the Sunday Observer that the Expert Committee has not been entrusted to prepare any report by the APRC and their report has no any legal validity. He too urged the President to dissolve the Expert Committee immediately.

Ranawaka noted" the APRC almost reached an agreement on the village level power devolution but the Expert Committee report torpedoed the entire process".

He urged that the majority report should not be taken up at the APRC for any discussion and it should not be influenced when drafting a devolution package.