Rs. 10 million worth vehicle to Mahanayake of Asgiriya chapter to open closed road in front of Dalada Maligawa..!

(Lanka-e-News- 01.March.2016, 11.30PM)  A directive has been issued from the highest echelons of the government to the General  treasury to gift a vehicle worth Rs. 10 million to Ven. Mahanayake Galagama Athdassi Thera of the Siyam Nikaye of the Asgiriya chapter , based on reports.

Doubts have proliferated whether the mahanayake is going to receive this vehicle as a bribe.Though the Malwatte mahanayake agreed for the  opening  the road in front of the Dalada Maligawa which remains closed now , the mahanayake of the Asgiriya chapter was bitterly opposed to this .

Spending Rs. 10 million of public funds to secure the willingness of mahanayake to open a road for the benefit of the people is a clear manifestation to what lowliest level a mahanayake who ought to be  the sentinel of Buddhism and a custodian of its pristine  tenets has descended.

Meanwhile officers of the treasury revealed  , without an expenditure allocation from the treasury ,monies cannot be spent on a motor vehicle to be given to  mahanayake is  not possible. If necessary , it might be  possible to grant  a vehicle to the Ven. mahanayake duly  under the Ministry of Buddhist affairs , the officers pointed out. 

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