{"id":190291,"date":"2018-05-02T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=190291"},"modified":"2018-05-04T04:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:46:19","slug":"ruwan-wijewardene-committee-recommended-the-strengthening-of-sinhala-buddhist-base-of-the-unp-full-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ruwan-wijewardene-committee-recommended-the-strengthening-of-sinhala-buddhist-base-of-the-unp-full-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruwan Wijewardene Committee Recommended The Strengthening Of Sinhala-Buddhist Base Of The UNP: Full Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 17-member Committee headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ruwan+Wijewardene\">Ruwan Wijewardene<\/a> appointed to develop a programme to restructure the United National Party (UNP) unanimously recommended that \u2018the Sinhala-Buddhist base should be strengthened within the party and towards this end a strong leadership with a Sinhala-Buddhist base should be created (Recommendation 5.1).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-190289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ruwan-Wijewardene-and-Ranil-Wickremesinghe-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the only one under the broad recommendation \u2018Working towards strengthening the religious base within the party (Recommendation 5).\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The committee, led by Wijewardene (cousin of party leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a>), also recommended that the party constitution should be democratized (Recommendation 1). Accordingly, they unanimously recommended that the party leadership should face an election immediately following a presidential or general election (1.1). It was also recommended that in such an election the Parliamentary Group of the party should also have the voting rights that are currently enjoyed only by the party\u2019s Working Committee.<\/p>\n<p>It was also recommended that \u2018more active persons\u2019 should hold all positions in the party (including Chairperson, General Secretary, National Organizer). The committee recommended that the party should appoint the next leadership (2.1). Under this recommendation (2.2) the Deputy Leader would be given the power to go all over the country in order to build the party organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the full report click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Full-report.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":190298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ruwan Wijewardene Committee Recommended The Strengthening Of Sinhala-Buddhist Base Of The UNP: Full Report - 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