{"id":38031,"date":"2015-02-02T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38031"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:21:31","slug":"ex-chief-justice-sarath-silva-faults-president-sirisena-over-appointing-ranil-as-pm-and-rendering-mohan-peiris-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38031","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chief Justice Sarath Silva Faults President Sirisena over Appointing Ranil as PM and Rendering Mohan Peiris &#8220;null and Void&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By  <\/p>\n<p>Deepal Warnakulasuriya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A major crisis was averted when former Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne and the previous United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government maintained silence and vacated the offices gracefully after the presidential election, former Chief Justice Sarath. N. Silva said in an exclusive interview with The Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Silva said that the way in which Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe became Prime Minister cannot be accepted. \u201cThe incumbent Prime Minister should step down or he or she should be removed and then only can a new Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers be appointed,\u201d Former Chief Justice Silva said. He also praised the way in which former Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers accepted the decision which the country had taken at the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He also refuted the \u2018null and void\u2019 concept which was brought to reinstate Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake in the post of Chief Justice and to remove Justice Mohan Peiris from the post. \u201cOnly a judicial court can declare anything null and void. The President\u2019s executive powers and judicial powers should not be misinterpreted,\u201d the former Chief Justice stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the new President Maithreepala Sirisena as a law abiding person, he said that he is being wrongly advised by those closest to him.  Silva also said that \u2018good governance\u2019 means respect for the rule of law. He said he does not wish to see \u2018the good governance regime\u2019 fall into cracks which the previous government fell.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that public officials must work within a framework which has been authorized by the law, but a normal citizen is free to do anything provided it is not prohibited by law. He also implied that the new government expects his assistance to administer the regime, but said he wishes to enjoy his freedom at home. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Ceylon Today<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton38031\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D38031&amp;text=Ex-Chief%20Justice%20Sarath%20Silva%20Faults%20President%20Sirisena%20over%20Appointing%20Ranil%20as%20PM%20and%20Rendering%20Mohan%20Peiris...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deepal Warnakulasuriya A major crisis was averted when former Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne and the previous United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government maintained silence and vacated the offices gracefully after the presidential election, former Chief Justice Sarath. N. Silva said in an exclusive interview with The Nation. Silva said that the way in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex-Chief Justice Sarath Silva Faults President Sirisena over Appointing Ranil as PM and Rendering Mohan Peiris &#8220;null and Void&#8221;.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38033,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions\/38033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}