Gnanasara Thera thanks President following release
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on May 24, 2019 - 1:59 pm
Venerable Galagodathe Gnanasara Thera who was freed from prison on Presidential pardon yesterday has met President Maithripala Sirisena last night.
The Thera had called on the President at his official residence on Mahagama-Sekara Mawatha in Colombo.
Gnanasara Thera’s mother had also been present at the occasion.
The Thera had thanked the President for his decision to grant him his freedom on a Presidential pardon.
(Source: News Radio)
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Dear Ven. Thero, please do not let up on your opposition to destructive bigoted-minority communalist/religious politics in the country as clearly seen from the 21/4 horror, we cannot trust our elected leaders to safeguard us from such evil. While our politicos were falling over themselves, bending over backwards, to cozy up to such communalist/religious bigots to win their political support to be in power, you alone were sounding out alarm over the rapidly rising extremism of the Wahabi-jihadist groups such as the NTJ. Then, these corrupt politicos not only ignored you, but some even started personally attacking and maligning you – and on 21/4 we saw the result of these corrupt politicos’ wisdom and attitude!