{"id":147786,"date":"2025-02-04T17:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147786"},"modified":"2025-02-04T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:57:48","slug":"an-open-advise-to-president-anura-kumara-and-his-coterie-of-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/04\/an-open-advise-to-president-anura-kumara-and-his-coterie-of-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"An open advise to President Anura Kumara and his coterie of Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimav Bandaranayaka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I strongly advise the President and his coterie of Ministers and their followers to read\u00a0 &#8216;The Panakaduwa Tamba Sannasa&#8221; by\u00a0 ( (ruled 1055\u20131110), to understand how our ancient Sinhala Buddhist Kings had treated those who saved this country and the Sinhala nation, before he and his coterie of ignorant followers try to expel\u00a0 Former President Mahinda Rajapaksha from this official residence. Also please don&#8217;t forget that it was Mahinda Rajapaksha who saved this country in 2009 from the LTTE who were listed as the most dangerous band of terrorists in the whole world and not you or any other of his predecessor\u00a0 President who miserably failed for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only the people of this country, but the whole world knows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also please don&#8217;t forget that this country had been governed by Sinhala Buddhist Kings on the advice of\u00a0 Buddhist monks for the past 2566 years. That is the long and undisputed legacy that no politician in this country who aspires to rule this country should ever forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore,\u00a0 if you would like to understand, more about the value of the Buddhist concept and the ideals of Governance please read the Introduction to the &#8220;Legacy of India&#8221; by\u00a0 Lord Marquess of Zetland, the British Governor of Bengal (1917-1922).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimav Bandaranayaka I strongly advise the President and his coterie of Ministers and their followers to read\u00a0 &#8216;The Panakaduwa Tamba Sannasa&#8221; by\u00a0 ( (ruled 1055\u20131110), to understand how our ancient Sinhala Buddhist Kings had treated those who saved this country and the Sinhala nation, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}