21A to cabinet today (23), if not will NOT remain in govt, warns Harin

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s new Tourism Minister Harin Fernando has warned that if the 21st Amendment to the Constitution is NOT tabled at the Cabinet meeting on Monday (23), he would not remain with the government.

“If Sri Lanka is to become stable and once again value democracy, the 21st Amendment needs to be presented,” he told reporters.

Harin Fernando said he believes the MPs in Parliament would secure the passage of the 21st of the Amendment to the Constitution, which is a call of the people who are voicing protest against the President.

However, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s General Secretary Attorney-at-Law Sagara Kariyawasam (MP) told News 1st that the crises on food, fuel etc, need to be solved right now, and that any constitutional amendments should be discussed afterwards.