{"id":66534,"date":"2017-05-31T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T04:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66534"},"modified":"2017-05-31T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T22:04:40","slug":"sri-lanka-request-for-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/31\/sri-lanka-request-for-flood-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Request for Flood Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

29 May 2017<\/p>\n

Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena<\/p>\n

President of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Presidential Secretariat<\/p>\n

Galle Face<\/p>\n

Colombo 1<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Sir:<\/p>\n

I have just received by e-mail a\u00a0 Request for Flood Relief Assistance to Sri Lanka <\/strong>\u00a0from our High Commission in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Yesterday,I felt morally generous when I participated in a flower auction at the Buddhist Monastery, Hilda Jayewardenaramaya in Ottawa, in the presence of our Acting High Commissioner.\u00a0 He was witness to this event when our generous devotees collected a handsome quantity of Canadian dollars for the Sri Lanka\u2019s Flood Relief efforts.<\/p>\n

I want to share my observation about the Press Release that I received from the Mission.. \u00a0There was an omission of a pertinent sentence or two that would have encouraged more expatriates to open their wallets to help the victims of this unfortunate natural disaster which your Government had no control of.<\/p>\n

However, I wished you gave me the opportunity to read\u00a0 some words showing the proof of your government’s genuine sincerity like –<\/p>\n

To kick start and join you all in your generous participation, I am glad to announce that all our parliamentarians have donated this month\u2019s bonus of Rs100,000 to the Flood Relief Assistance.\u00a0 In addition I, as your President, have ordered that the Rupees 1.1 Billion that has been requested to purchase 32 brand new luxury vehicles for the use of Ministers and Deputy Minister to be approved and allocated to the Flood Relief Assistance Fund.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sir, will you go ahead and do it if you have not already acted on it, although I am not certain whether the MPs are receiving that bonus already which was requested for them by the Prime Minister as an incentive for the Ministers to participate in national development and work in their electorates a few months ago..<\/p>\n

This honourable, honest and heart-crying action would certainly negate the words that I heard in February 2016, when I asked 24 gamme minissu <\/em><\/strong>in the coastal-west, south, hill country and the north-west, kohomadha appey aluth arnduwa?<\/em><\/strong>\u201d The response was, almost a choral unison accompanied by a snicker Oya okkoma hora yakku, mahathaya.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 I sent you a letter about this pulse of the gamme minissu<\/strong> no sooner I returned to Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Sincerely<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe.(Mr.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 29 May 2017 Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Sir: I have just received by e-mail a\u00a0 Request for Flood Relief Assistance to Sri Lanka \u00a0from our High Commission in Ottawa. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66534","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=66534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}