President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in an interview in New Delhi, India, with the prestigious ‘The Hindu’ newspaper has turned down the implementation of yet incomplete aspects of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Replying to a question, Rajapaksa said: “Look, the 13th Amendment is part of the Constitution and, is functional, except for some areas like control of police powers, which we can’t implement. I am willing to discuss alternatives to that.”