Head of Gov­ern­ment's In­ter-Min­is­te­r­i­al Com­mit­tee on Con­sti­tu­tion­al Re­form, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har is call­ing on cit­i­zens, mem­bers of po­lit­i­cal or­gan­i­sa­tions and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions to con­tribute to the ex­er­cise by shar­ing their views via email, mail or call­ing his min­istry.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, Ra­mad­har, who is al­so the po­lit­i­cal leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple, said the process of con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form in T&T "must be un­der­tak­en with the req­ui­site care for co­her­ence and com­plete­ness." He said the ex­er­cise must al­so pro­vide max­i­mum op­por­tu­ni­ty for the par­tic­i­pa­tion of cit­i­zens and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions. Ra­mad­har said steps un­der­tak­en so far in­clude:

• A care­ful study and re­view of pre­vi­ous con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form ex­er­cis­es and of ex­ist­ing con­sti­tu­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions as to their rel­e­vance and ef­fec­tive­ness

• Prepa­ra­tion of draft amend­ments for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of changes on which the pop­u­la­tion has al­ready ex­pressed a de­sire for the in­clu­sion via sup­port for the pro­pos­als of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship in the 2010 gen­er­al elec­tion

• The very im­por­tant ques­tion of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two main is­lands in our con­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work is al­so be­ing ad­dressed by a par­al­lel ex­er­cise led by the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al

Ra­mad­har said the par­tic­i­pa­tion of na­tion­als was very im­por­tant to the suc­cess of the ex­er­cise.