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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Home Affairs Ministry Wants Public To Fund PM’s 40 “Years In Politics Celebrations”
In a clear violation of the basic tenets of good governance and
demonstrating absolute confusion over ‘state,’ ‘government’ and
‘party,’ the Ministry of Home Affairs has demanded all District
Secretaries organize programmes for the commemoration of a political
event, i.e ‘the completion of 40 years of public service by the Hon
Prime Minsiter Ranil Wickremesinghe.’
The
relevant instructions have been issued in a letter marked ‘Extremely
Urgent’ and signed by Neil De Alwis, Secretary, Ministry of Home
Affairs. The directives, detailed under the subject line ‘The completion
of 40 years of public service by the Hon Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe and the free economic system,’ calls for the mobilizing
of support from people in the relevant areas and obtaining their
involvement for commemorative programmes. These include all night pirith
ceremonies on August 3, 2017 and offering of alms to 40 Buddhist monks
on the following day (August 4th). The District Secretaries have been
asked to arrange for these religious events to be complemented by
similar ceremonies invoking blessings on the people and the Yahapalana
government at Christian, Hindu and Muslim places of worship.
The letter has been copied to the Secretary to the Prime Minister ‘for
his kind attention’. It is not known whether or not the Prime Minister’s
office has noted the clear abuse of state resources and the
politicization of public offices embedded in the text of the letter and,
in the event of such noticing, given appropriate instructions to the
Home Affairs Minister.