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The consequences of the 20th Amendment (20A) to the Constitution that Parliament recently approved with great fanfare and brouhaha from Government members, have, as expected, come to bite the very ones who voluntarily surrendered the powers of Parliament to the Executive Presidency. Last week, with nary a warning, the Presidential…
My dear Mahinda maama, I am writing to you not only because I couldn’t write to you to wish you on your 75th birthday – because that was eclipsed by Gota maama’s first anniversary – but also because I couldn’t decide who I should write to about this issue of the ‘corona peniya’ that is generating so much interest now. Besides, I didn’t want to burden Gota maama with this because he has so many matters to deal with such as prison riots, appointing judges by the dozen to the highest courts and re-opening the country to tourists, to name a few. Also, I am sure he will still li...