20th Amendment date this week

We have openly requested for government support and the ruling party had neither rejected nor accepted it. Therefore we are confident that we will get their support - Hashim

The date as to when the 20th Amendment to the Constitution will be presented to Parliament will be decided this week.

UNP MP for Kegalle District Kabir Hashim who is to move the Amendment in the form of a Private Member’s motion, told Daily Mirror that he had already handed over the Bill to the Bills Office in Parliament. He said the date would be notified from the Bills Office within this week. Mr. Hashim was confident that the government would support this Bill as it had not rejected it to date. “We have openly requested for government support and the ruling party has neither rejected nor accepted it. Therefore we are confident that we will get their support,” he said. Meanwhile UNP Kurunegala District MP Akila Viraj Kariyawasam who is also expected to come up with a Bill to make education compulsory for all students said his Bill would be taken up in Parliament before the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Kariyawasam therefore said it would probably be taken up in Parliament next week. In another development the UNP initiated a stakeholder meeting of the education sector is to take place on August 20 where they are expected appoint a committee to plan agitation for resolving the crisis in the educa

tion sector.