The Geneva resolution and the government’s positive response to it is fast heating up the atmosphere at Diyawanna. The new Big Boss and the other top brass of the regime hailed the resolution as a great victory for the country.
However, a section of the Blue party is reportedly opposed to the party’s official stand on the resolution.
Meanwhile, some opposition elements maintain that it is unconstitutional to hold a domestic inquiry as proposed by the Geneva resolution without a mandate obtained for it at a referendum. Some opposition Diyawanna members have already vowed to oppose the proposal when it is placed before the House.
However, most Blue party members who are articulate against the Geneva resolution and the proposed domestic inquiry harbour fears in their heart of hearts that they would lose their Diyawanna seats for acting in defiance of the party line so some of them met a well-known constitutional expert to seek his advice.
They asked the expert: “Can they take disciplinary action against us leading to the forfeiture of our seats if we vote against the proposal in the national interest?”
“Courts in most similar cases have ruled in favour of the defiant members,” said the expert giving the chapter and verse of a series of precedents.
The Diyawanna members were all smiles as they bid adieu to the legal expert, they say.
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