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Dark clouds and silver linings

Today I heard about a grand wedding of an Indian tycoon (Ambani's son) from a friend of mine, and he showed me some videos of it too. He said famous and powerful people from around the world have been invited to it, and the cost of the event was going to be several Billions (of Indian Rupees or USD, I don't know). If you think about it, India is a country with a higher population of substandard living conditions. There are innocent and miserable children who are forced to work for a mere subsistence, being deprived of education, health facilities, and food and water. I remember a movie based on a true story in which Akshey Kumar was playing the leading role where he makes sanitary towels (pads) for poor women who could not afford it. In such a country, a single wedding event spends billions of money. What a crappy world we are living! You could imagine how much wealth this family has amassed. On the other, this "mental disease" of exorbitant spending must be highly we

යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව (Third Republic Constitution) Chapter VII

 CHAPTER VII

 

AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION

 

44.       The Constitution shall be amended or replaced as in the manner described herein.

(1)    Prime Minister, with the approval of Cabinet of Ministers, or a Member of Parliament with consent and signatures of not less than one third of the whole number of Members of Parliament shall submit a Bill to amend or to completely repeal and replace the Constitution to State Assembly;

(2)    Such Bill shall be passed with a Special Majority, as described in paragraph (4) of Article 43;

(3)    Speaker shall endorse such Bill signing the Certificate of endorsement by Members of State Assembly, and order Elections Commission to conduct a Referendum as per the provisions of Article 112;

(4)    After Elections Commission proclaims the result thereof, the President shall endorse such Bill signing the Certificate of endorsement by the People at Referendum, as in the following manner, and the amendment or the Constitution, as the case may be, shall become operational immediately after his signature:

“This Bill (here State the long title of the Bill) has been endorsed by the Speaker and then approved by the People at Referendum, and hereinafter shall be a common law in the Republic.”

Where such Bill becomes law upon the certificate of the President, no court or tribunal shall inquire into, pronounce upon, or in any manner call in question the validity of such amendment or the Constitution, as the case may be, on any ground whatsoever.

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