Only Karu Jayasuriya at Sobhitha Thera’s alms giving!

 Feb 09, 2016

The third month remembrance alms giving for Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera took place last Sunday at Sri Naga Vihara in Kotte. The organizing committee gave telephone calls to all Yahapaalana government politicians from top to the bottom, informing them about the event.

Of them all, only speaker Karu Jayasuriya attended the alms giving. It was Jayasuriya who worked closely with the Thera, when he built the Movement for a Just Society against the wrongs of the Rajapaksa regime. It was him who looked into everything during the period Sobhitha Thera was ill.

None of the politicians who gave lengthy speeches at the Thera’s funeral promising to take forward him service were present at the alms giving, which shows the true face of the Sri Lankan politics. Sobhitha Thera would not have dreamt that our politicians would be so ungrateful to forget within three months the very person who had made the platform to elevate them.

That is why speaker Karu Jayasuriya is recognized both locally and international as a diplomat, rather than a politician.