MR appoints committee to study 20A

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed a committee chaired by Minister of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris to study the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

Accordingly, cabinet ministers Udaya Gammanpila, Ali Sabry, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Wimal Weerawansa and State Ministers Susil Premajayantha, S. Viyalendran and MPs Dilan Perera and Premanath C. Dolawatte were appointed as the committee members.

The report of the committee is scheduled to be handed over to the Prime Minister on September 15.