Lawyers representing former Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake have faulted the current government for failing to mete out justice to the former head of the Supreme Court.

The government has said the ban imposed on some Diaspora groups is currently being reviewed.

Opposition MP Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha has in writing to the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption has sought an investigation into Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The second reading of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Parliament with a majority of 214 votes, with 215 members voting for and a single vote against.

Foreign affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera, joining the debate on the 19th amendment to the constitution in parliament today, said, "I am hopeful that the new Parliament, to be elected by the people later this year, will shed divisive politics and unite on issues of national significance. In particular, I am hopeful that that new Parliament will do what many other governments attempted but failed to do - to introduce a new constitution, in fact ‘the Third Republican constitution’ of Sri Lanka."