By Rajiva Wijesinha – After Rev Sobitha’s very inspired remarks about the need to fulfil our promises rather than think about elections, I had a searching interview with ARTV, which helped my ideas to crystallize. I was also a bit upset, because I gathered that the UNP hierarchy was meeting at Temple Trees to discuss […]
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Maithripala Sirisena Is A Very Capable Person – Prof. Rajiva Wijesinghe
[Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe] Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe, son of late Sam Wijesinghe, Former Parliamentary Secretary General is a member of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka. In June 2007 President Mahinda Rajapakse appointed him Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process, and in June 2008 he became the Secretary to the […]
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Colombo ‘failing to engage’ with Tamil minority; After five years, the situation has become much worse – Rajiva Wijesinha
Rajiva: I can’t help Five years after the end of Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war, there are few signs of a government-led reconciliation, MP Rajiva Wjesinha tells Deutsche Welle, arguing that mistrust and suspicion have only grown stronger. In a Deutsche Welle interview, Rajiva Wijesinha, a member of the Sri Lankan parliament for the ruling […]
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Minister Rajiwa Wijesinha’s Liberal Party launches a pettion to President Rajapaksha to limit the Cabinet to 20
Sri Lanka: one of the largest cabinet of ministers in the world His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa,We, the signatories of this petition, call on His Excellency The President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to introduce a Constitutional Amendment to limit the size of the Cabinet to 20, with no more than 20 Cabinet […]
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Judicial Accountability: The first is that the judiciary should be independent, which means that there should be no interference, by individuals or any other branch of government
Rajiva Wijesinha The last section I had planned to look at in this series is the Judiciary, though that may be the most important in the current context. The basic suggestions I put forward some weeks back, before the crisis had got so grave, basically addressed problems that were developing precisely because we were confused […]
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Sri Lanka has perhaps the most dysfunctional structure of government – Rajiva Wijesinha
The Structure of Government, Cooperation of Government Machinery and the Role of NGOs – 1 by Rajiva Wijesinha I plan in the three hours of this workshop to cover a lot of ground, which I hope will lead to much discussion, and to some understanding of the principles of government, and actual practice in Sri Lanka. […]
