Gov’t, PPP engagement necessary for constitutional reform process to work

Any move towards constitutional reform cannot work without the government engaging the political opposition, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran last Friday told a public forum, where he also questioned the administration’s failure to pronounce on the final report handed over by the Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform (SCCR) almost one year ago.

Ramkarran, the former Chair of the constitution reform process that was undertaken in the late 90s and early ‘aughts,’ was one of the panelists at a public symposium on constitutional reform that was organised by the Carter Center and supported by the UK High Commission.

The forum sought to explore the various perspectives on the country’s constitutional reform process, while giving