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BASL fears next set of civil society representatives might be rubber stamps of NPP
The Island
|December 31, 2025
CC in dilemma over filling impending vacancies
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A group of officials from National Audit Office of Sri Lanka attend a capacity building programme in India
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) in a letter dated 22 December, addressed to President Dissanayake, who is the leader of the NPP and the JVP, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickremaratne and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa emphasised their collective responsibility in ensuring transparency in the appointment of civil society representatives.
Cabinet spokesperson and Health and Media Minister, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, is on record as having emphasised the urgent need to finalise the appointment. Minister Jayatissa alleged, at the postCabinet media briefing, that the President's nominations had been rejected without giving explanation by certain members, including three representatives of civil society.
Parliament, on 18 January, 2023, approved the former Ministry Secretary Dr. Ramanujam, former Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Medical Association Dr. Wijesundere, and Dr. Samararatne of the University of Colombo as civil society representatives to the CC.
They were the first post-Aragalaya civil society members of the CC. The current CC was introduced by the 21 Amendment to the Constitution which was endorsed on 31st of October, 2022, during a time of grave uncertainty. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been elected by the SLPP to complete the remainder of ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's five-year term, sought to manipulate the CC. Wickremesinghe received the SLPP's backing though they fell out later.
During Wickremesinghe's tenure as the President, civil society representatives earned the wrath of the then RajapaksaWickremesinghe government by refusing to back Deshabandu Tennakoon's appointment as the IGP. The then Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena was accused of manipulating CC's ruling in respect of Deshabandu Tennakoon to suit Wickremesinghe's agenda.
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