Responding to the Presidential reference made in the case of the Tamil Nadu Bills verdict, the Supreme Court said “deemed assent”, invoked earlier this year in the Tamil Nadu case, is “antithetical to the spirit of the Constitution” and goes against the principle of separation of powers.
The official order appointing Jayakumar was issued on Monday. His term will be for two years, and the appointment will take effect from Friday. The tenure of the outgoing TDB President, P S Prasanth, ends on November 13.
The royal families of Mankapur and Balrampur faced each other in the election. Kirti Vardhan Singh defeated Jayendra Pratap Singh of the Balrampur royal family by a huge margin of 130 votes today.
Saikia demanded that the investigation be monitored by a sitting or retired judge of the Gauhati High Court, arguing that only judicial oversight could ensure accountability in what he described as a case filled with “suspicious circumstances”.
Justice Vikram Nath, sitting with Chief Justice Gavai along with Justice Surya Kant, Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar, interjected: “Yes, Bangladesh also.”
The winner will take charge of a bankrupt nation that is in talks with the IMF for a bailout, with its 22 million people enduring severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
As per the official results, Wickremesinghe got 134 votes in a three-cornered parliamentary vote, with his main opponent Dullas Alahapperuma getting 82 and leftist Anura Dissanayake just three — giving him an absolute majority.
Suffered with a dollar crunch and inflation, Sri Lanka is facing a huge economic crisis with no fuel, food, cooking gas, medicine and many other essentials.
The President is elected by members of the Electoral College consisting of elected Members of Parliament and that of all the state Assemblies, including National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Acting President before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Daily Mirror reported citing Prime Minister's Media Division.
