{"id":49232,"date":"2015-11-08T17:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49232"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:58:18","slug":"maduluwawe-sobhitha-thero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/08\/maduluwawe-sobhitha-thero\/","title":{"rendered":"MADULUWAWE SOBHITHA THERO"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Late Ven Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thero underwent two\u00a0 heart surgeries\u00a0 at the Central Hospital Sri Lanka during last 2 months. According to established medical dictums, overseas travel is not recommended to heart patients following a surgery, for at least 6 months after the operation.\u00a0\u00a0 There is general consensus amongst the medical professionals, 12 months period as a safety net period for overseas travel for such patients.<\/p>\n

There was no doubt that Late Thero might not have been in a position to understand the risks associated with such a decision to travel and he might have been persuaded by political strongmen to do so.\u00a0 Were there any ulterior motives behind this risky decision and strategy?\u00a0 Now Ven. Sobhitha Thero is silenced!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the recent past, Late Thero had publicly expressed his disappointment with the government for breaking its key promises.\u00a0 When President Mahinda Rajapakse met the Thero at the Hospital in Colombo, the Thero had told\u00a0 the President ” Apita weraduna mahaththayo” ( we made a mistaake).<\/p>\n

BUDDHIST MONKS IN SRI LANKA POLITICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Chief Incumbent of Kelaniya Rajamaha Vihiraya Mapitigama Buddharakkitha conspired and killed the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mr S W R D Bandaranaike.\u00a0 Buddharakkitha killed Mr Bandaranaike as the Prime Minister refused to give major contracts to the Bhikku, who supported him to come to power in 1956.<\/p>\n

Late Sobhitha Thero did not expect any financial rewards in return from Maithreepala and Ranil regime for bringing them into\u00a0 power, instead he genuinely felt disappointed with the new government for its failure to keep the promises.\u00a0 Now Ven Sobitha Thero is out of the future political equation, there will be happy faces emerging.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was on 20 November 2014, the President Mahinda Rajapakse issued a proclamation calling for Presidential election in January 2015.\u00a0 The events that had taken place during past 12 months from November 2014 to November 2015 had not benefitted Sri Lanka at all.\u00a0 These events did not enhance image of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 These events had neither increased the standard of living nor decrease the cost of living for Sri Lankans.\u00a0\u00a0 These events had not improved the disposable income of the average Sri Lankan.\u00a0 These events had not improved the employment, education or health sectors in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

These events had placed the leader of\u00a0 ITAK, the Tamil dominated political party with 16 seats out of 225 as the Opposition Leader of the Parliament.\u00a0 These events had placed the leader of JVP which won 6 seats as the Chief Opposition Whip of the Parliament.<\/p>\n

These events had placed the majority Sinhalese in a low ranking order.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Late Ven. Sobhitha Thero must have realised his error of judgement of creating a political crisis in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 It is too late now and regrettably Ven\u00a0 Sobhitha is no more to rectify the situation.<\/p>\n

Oba Wanseta Niwan Suva Lebewa.<\/p>\n

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By M D P DISSANAYAKE Late Ven Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thero underwent two\u00a0 heart surgeries\u00a0 at the Central Hospital Sri Lanka during last 2 months. According to established medical dictums, overseas travel is not recommended to heart patients following a surgery, for at least 6 months after the operation.\u00a0\u00a0 There is general consensus amongst the medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49232","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=49232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}