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Congress jamboree veers from agenda as members speak as they please

report in The Kathmandu Post, July 22, 2023  The ongoing Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress that is being live-streamed to the audience for the first time in the party’s history lacks a structured and focussed debate. A joint meeting of the party’s office bearers and former office bearers on Sunday had set the agenda for the meeting, which is taking place after a gap of almost a year. The party’s statute…

’’If you do not know English, why don’t you speak in Tamil,’’ RW tells Tamil activist

report in Daily Mirror, June 28, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe asked a Tamil activist in France to pose a question in Tamil when it seemed he was struggling to raise a question in English. The activist, during an event in France, urged the President to address humanitarian issues in Sri Lanka before focusing on other issues. The activist also opined that he does not believe the Government in Sri Lanka was democratic. The President responded saying…