Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickrmesinghe assured the Constitutional Assembly that the clause on religion in Sri Lanka’s constitution would not be changed, reports Colombo Page.
Mr Wickermesinghe was speaking at the submission of the constitutional sub-committee reports to the Constitution Assembly on Saturday.
Sri Lanka’s current constitution places “foremost place” to Buddhism and pledges to “protect and foster the Buddha Sasana.”
The Prime Minister added that a preliminary debate on the reports and recommendations of the sub-committees will be held on the 9th, 10th and 11th of January.
The sub-committees that were appointed to formulate Sri Lanka’s new constitution looked into the areas of Fundamental Rights, Judiciary, Finance, Law & Order, Public Service and Centre-Periphery Relations.