Monday, July 04, 2005
JHU threatens to impeach CBK over P-TOMS
By Damitha Hemachandra
Friday, June 24, 2005
The JHU yesterday threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against the government alleging that the President had signed the P-TOMS agreement yesterday or would be signing it today.
JHU leader Ven. Ellawala Medhananda Thera, at a Jatika Sangha Sammelanaya conference said discussions were being held with other political parties to impeach the President if she acted in undemocratic methods of signing the P-TOMS agreement without consulting the public, MPs and the Maha Sangha.
“We would cease to accept Chandrika Kumaratunga as the President if she betrays the country through the P-TOMS,” he said urging the President to resign and hold a Presidential Election within a month.
JHU Parliamentary Group Leader, Ven. Aturaliye Rathana Thera pledged to move the masses against the P-TOMS since the President was planning to betray the country ‘for dollars from Japan and the US’.
“The MPs and the Prime Minister are ignorant of the P-TOMS draft and the Cabinet too is ignorant of it,” he said questioning what democracy was there if the President was to sign the agreement while Parliament was debating it.
The Ven. Thera accused the President of attempting to strengthen the LTTE following in the path of Ranil Wickremesinghe and said the time had come for the President to stop the damage.
“When the President came into power there were only 8,000 deaths in the forces. But today it had increased to 15,000 under her leadership as the Commander-in-Chief,” he said.
Ven. Medhananda Thera accused the President of removing Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara from the Eastern Province under pressure from the TNA and the LTTE since he was neutral during the clash over the Trincomalee Buddha statue issue.
JHU General Secretary Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera presented the JHU’s Five Concepts named ‘Raja Bavathu Dammiko’ or ‘May the ruler be righteous’ - the first of a series of conferences against the President and the P-TOMS.
The Five Concepts pledged to protect the sovereignty of the country, not to enter into any agreements with the LTTE or any separatist terrorist organisation and to amend the present electoral system and also the Executive Presidency.
Friday, June 24, 2005
The JHU yesterday threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against the government alleging that the President had signed the P-TOMS agreement yesterday or would be signing it today.
JHU leader Ven. Ellawala Medhananda Thera, at a Jatika Sangha Sammelanaya conference said discussions were being held with other political parties to impeach the President if she acted in undemocratic methods of signing the P-TOMS agreement without consulting the public, MPs and the Maha Sangha.
“We would cease to accept Chandrika Kumaratunga as the President if she betrays the country through the P-TOMS,” he said urging the President to resign and hold a Presidential Election within a month.
JHU Parliamentary Group Leader, Ven. Aturaliye Rathana Thera pledged to move the masses against the P-TOMS since the President was planning to betray the country ‘for dollars from Japan and the US’.
“The MPs and the Prime Minister are ignorant of the P-TOMS draft and the Cabinet too is ignorant of it,” he said questioning what democracy was there if the President was to sign the agreement while Parliament was debating it.
The Ven. Thera accused the President of attempting to strengthen the LTTE following in the path of Ranil Wickremesinghe and said the time had come for the President to stop the damage.
“When the President came into power there were only 8,000 deaths in the forces. But today it had increased to 15,000 under her leadership as the Commander-in-Chief,” he said.
Ven. Medhananda Thera accused the President of removing Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara from the Eastern Province under pressure from the TNA and the LTTE since he was neutral during the clash over the Trincomalee Buddha statue issue.
JHU General Secretary Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera presented the JHU’s Five Concepts named ‘Raja Bavathu Dammiko’ or ‘May the ruler be righteous’ - the first of a series of conferences against the President and the P-TOMS.
The Five Concepts pledged to protect the sovereignty of the country, not to enter into any agreements with the LTTE or any separatist terrorist organisation and to amend the present electoral system and also the Executive Presidency.
