{"id":60525,"date":"2018-08-31T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=60525"},"modified":"2018-08-31T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:05:46","slug":"a-new-constitution-is-a-fundamental-necessity-the-sinhala-majority-should-accept-it-m-a-sumanthiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=60525","title":{"rendered":"A new Constitution is a fundamental necessity. The Sinhala majority should accept it \u2013 M. A. Sumanthiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> speaking in Sinhala in Galle All the problems of Tamil People won\u2019t b solved by a new Constitution, but a new Constitution is fundamental. Without this, no issue an be addressed, said TNA Spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala an an event in Galle on Constitutional Reform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Speaking further, he said: In a country with a permanent majority it is important to share powers of governance in such a way that all peoples have equal citizenship rights.<\/p>\n<p> Sri Lanka\u2019s Sinhala majority must itself acknowledge injustice of simple majoritarian rule &#038; clamour for reform &#038; justice for other peoples.<\/p>\n<p> There has been a series of meetings in the south on constitutional reforms. <\/p>\n<p>This was the seventh meeting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton60525\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D60525&amp;text=A%20new%20Constitution%20is%20a%20fundamental%20necessity.%20The%20Sinhala%20majority%20should%20accept%20it%20%E2%80%93%20M.%20A.%20Sumanthiran&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>speaking in Sinhala in Galle All the problems of Tamil People won\u2019t b solved by a new Constitution, but a new Constitution is fundamental. Without this, no issue an be addressed, said TNA Spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala an an event in Galle on Constitutional Reform.<\/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\/60525"}],"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=60525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60526,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60525\/revisions\/60526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}