SLFP in crisis over MR’s role
Premajayantha joins Rajapaksa faction tomorrow:
UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha is
expected to join the pro -Rajapaksa group tomorrow, the Sunday Observer
reliably learns. Party insiders worry that this expected move by a party
stalwart could precipitate a wholesale shift by a number of
parliamentarians to the Rajapaksa camp thereby creating a major split in
the party.
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Dissolution not welcomed by all parties
SLFP, JHU unhappy; Ganeshan and alliance gearing up
for elections:
The dissolution of Parliament may have been
long-awaited, but some major and minor political parties are not so
happy about it.The SLFP is unhappy, according to one party senior,
because of the failure by the government to ensure the 20th Amendment to
the Constitution is passed into law during this Parliament.
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Isolating communities, bedrock for new terrorism - Mangala
Engagement and dialogue are essential to ensure
dissenting views are heard and agrieved parties resolve their issues
without having to resort to violence, said Minister of External Affairs
Mangala Samaraweera in an one- hour media briefing held two days prior
to the dissolution of Parliament. The Minister elaborated that new forms
of terrorism would emerge if aggrieved communities are isolated.
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Why Muslims are against 20A
Muslims living scattered all over the island, with
special concentration in the east but often in small pockets in the
predominantly Sinhalese areas, fear that their representations in the
parliament will be reduced considerably under the proposed 20th
amendment to the constitution on electoral reforms ,
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