QUEST FOR POWER

Recently,the newly elected government in Sri Lanka drafted a new constitution which will abandon the nineteenth schedule of Sri lankan constitution passed in year 2015.It diluted the eighteenth amendment which gives power to the president of Sri Lanka.The nineteenth amendment diluted the power of president,set up a constitutional council and this constitutional council monitors the functioning and working of the important commission.It also strengthen the  parliament of Sri Lanka.That means eighteenth amendment has given wide powers to the parliament and council but these powers were  snatched by the dilution of nineteenth amendment moreover the tenure which was fixed to  be twice for a presidential candidate  has also been increased to indefinite period of time.

Russian president Vladimir Putin passed a referendum which was unopposed passed in their parliament and that made him president till 2034. Alexei Navalny who was the only opposition leader in Russia since 2001 although he never won the election because the elections are rigged in Russia, has recently been poisoned by some anonymous group.

Chinese President Xi Jinping(General Secretary of Communist Party of China) has labelled himself president for lifetime.But a communist nation taking this decision does not look scandalized at all because there is no such thing called freedom which exist.Moreover it snatched the freedom of Hong Kong by passing the national security law and making the Chief executive officer Carry Lam a puppet of People Liberation Army(PLA)

.Alexander Lukashenko,president of Belarus has declared himself president for continuously five terms.Despite having a strong opposition,peoples support,exit polls in favor for the opposition leader,he again turned out to be victorious.Despite being member of the European Union and NATO,it is said that he got support from Russian President as it shares boundary with Russia and also erstwhile part of Soviet Union.This has resulted in dissent of people for present government resulting in demonstration during this crisis.

Recently,Poland came up with a law to punish the judges who try to amend the laws passed by the parliament.See Russia and China we all know about these communist nation so, when they come up with such laws,it does not surprise us much.But in the recent times there had been many democratic countries who had been moving on the path of being autocratic.This can be labelled as quest for power which is thriving now in democratic country as well.