What is good in casinos?
April 25, 2014
An opportunistic protest campaign against an equally murky bill to set up three casinos has brought together strange bedfellows. Rubble rousing Buddhist monks of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Ravana Balaya and Jathika Sanga Sammelanaya on Wednesday met with the Maha Nayakas of the Asgiriya and Malwatta Chapters, the foremost Buddhist power centres of the country, to lobby for high priests' support to a campaign against the proposed casinos. The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), a government constituent party has joined the ranks of their ideological pals and would likely to abstain from voting. Sarath Fonseka's Democratic Party and presidential hopeful, Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, are also up in arms against the bill. To make matters worse, liberal pro-market main opposition, the UNP, too has jumped on the bandwagon. Opposition MPs and party supporters brought in several skinny old horses to a protest in front of a leading casino owned by Transport Ministry Secretary, Dammika Perera, in D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha, yesterday.
April 25, 2014
An opportunistic protest campaign against an equally murky bill to set up three casinos has brought together strange bedfellows. Rubble rousing Buddhist monks of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Ravana Balaya and Jathika Sanga Sammelanaya on Wednesday met with the Maha Nayakas of the Asgiriya and Malwatta Chapters, the foremost Buddhist power centres of the country, to lobby for high priests' support to a campaign against the proposed casinos. The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), a government constituent party has joined the ranks of their ideological pals and would likely to abstain from voting. Sarath Fonseka's Democratic Party and presidential hopeful, Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, are also up in arms against the bill. To make matters worse, liberal pro-market main opposition, the UNP, too has jumped on the bandwagon. Opposition MPs and party supporters brought in several skinny old horses to a protest in front of a leading casino owned by Transport Ministry Secretary, Dammika Perera, in D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha, yesterday.