Has Sri Lanka’s Election Commission blundered
The President in dissolving Parliament on 2nd March & setting a new date for polls followed all the rules. Having set a date it was left to the Election Commission to conduct the polls....
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th May 2020
The President in dissolving Parliament on 2nd March & setting a new date for polls followed all the rules. Having set a date it was left to the Election Commission to conduct the polls....
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st May 2020
The country is facing a situation it has never before had to face. Plucking Articles from the Constitution and crying to the Supreme Court without helping deal with the situation, shows how bankrupt the...
Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 30th April 2020
JVP stands guilty of ruining the lives of university adults and functioning as political prostitute depending on the deals inked by their handlers with the likely political party coming to power. Each time...
Covid-19 has jolted 21st century citizens who thought they were above all and could do anything and all with technology and money. COVID-19 has forced humans to better appreciate nature and the limits humans can...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th April 2020
The calls to reconvene Parliament come from the same coterie of people who orchestrated regime change in 2015 capitalizing on a Presidential Election victory to bring to power a minority UNP government and place Ranil...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th April 2020
Sri Lanka is facing multiple issues. At a global & local level there is pandemic health crisis impacting the lives of all. Governance of country has fallen into the hands of the President &...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th April 2020
Article 92(b) and Clause 20(4) of the 19a and Article 91(1)(d)(XIII) of the Constitution says persons who are dual citizens are DISQUALIFIED from being elected as MPs or the President. If this is so...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd April 2020
On 21st April 2019 multiple suicide attacks claimed the lives of over 300 innocent persons. These attacks took place despite 97 intel warnings from India the last coming hours before the first suicide bombing,...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media
by Shenali Waduge · Published 22nd April 2020
A pandemic engulfs the globe with deaths nearing 200,000 and millions of confirmed cases documented. So far no one, not even the World Health Organization can firmly say what caused the virus, how the...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st April 2020
LTTE declared him anti-Tamil and anti-Hindu…. Sri Lankan’s question him on his bias and lack of integrity. What can we comprehend of his actions? Let’s go back a bit to understand. Amnesty International on...