{"id":59043,"date":"2012-11-06T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=59043"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:00:55","slug":"india-says-impeaching-chief-justice-is-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-says-impeaching-chief-justice-is-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India Says Impeaching Chief justice Is an Internal Matter Of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Colombo Telegraph<\/span> <\/a>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said India would keep away from the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, when asked about the Indian government\u2019s position on the Sri Lankan government plans to impeach the Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, Lakbimanews reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59044\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-says-impeaching-chief-justice-is-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka\/indian-external-affairs-minister-salman-khurshid\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59044\" title=\"Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Indian-External-Affairs-Minister-Salman-Khurshid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khurshid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr Khurshid was responding to a question raised by\u00a0Lakbimanews journalist <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranga+Jayasuriya&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\">Ranga Jayasuriya<\/a><\/span>, at the concluding meeting of \u00a0the Indian Ocean Rim Association for regional Cooperation ministerial meeting held in the city of \u00a0Gurgoan. \u00a0when the lakbimanews correspondent cited that the United States of America had already raised concerns about recent interferences of judiciary independence and the impending impeachment motion, and asked India\u2019s take on the matter, in terms of the impact the recent developments would have on democracy in the country, Mr. Khurshid said that India would work with the government at the time and that it would not get involved in the affairs of internal institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparation of power of those institutions is important&#8230; But, taking an undue interest in internal affairs of a particular institution would be counter-productive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He however added: \u201cWe support democracy, foster democracy and celebrate democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":59044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[6234,6054,6233],"class_list":["post-59043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-impeachment-motion-against-chief-justice-shirani-bandaranayake-and-india","tag-impeachment-motion-against-the-chief-justice","tag-india-on-impeaching-chief-justice-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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