{"id":88742,"date":"2019-05-14T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88742"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:22:57","slug":"pivithuru-hela-urumaya-phu-and-national-freedom-front-nff-wont-support-that-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/14\/pivithuru-hela-urumaya-phu-and-national-freedom-front-nff-wont-support-that-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) and National Freedom Front (NFF) wont support that Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Methmalie Dissanayake<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Leader and Parliamentarian Udaya Prabhath Gammanpila\nyesterday (13) said, both the PHU and National Freedom Front (NFF) would not\nsupport any politician that obtains support from Western Province Governor\nAzath Salley and Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to form a Government at future\nElections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made this remark during a Media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gammanpila said, After analyzing the information we have received, we found\nthat two politicians have direct links with the spread of extremism in the\ncountry. They are Salley and Bathiudeen. We have enough evidence to prove that.\nBut nothing has been done about them so far. Therefore, we decided that even if\nour most favourite politician gets the support from these two to form a\nGovernment at future Elections, we will never support him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gammanpila added that they had provided several guidelines which would help\nto eradicate religious extremism in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we should change the current electoral system. It is because of this\nsystem that politicians have to depend on parties which have extremist ideas.\nWhat we propose is allocating 15 bonus seats at a General Election to the party\nwhich gains the majority of votes islandwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that way, stable Governments can be established. The second proposal is\nbanning clothing like the Burqa immediately even after the Emergency\nRegulations. If someone wears a facemask in public places, that person should\ntake a medical report with him\/her at all times. Establishing a common marriage\nand divorce law is the third proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One nation, one law: it is as simple as that. The fourth one is approving\nand monitoring syllabuses in Madrasa (Islamic colleges) schools. The\nintelligence forces should also monitor the teachings in these schools. The\nfifth one is private universities which teach religious ideologies, should in\nturn be directly monitored by the University Grants Commission (UGC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sixth proposal is that the Media should not be allowed to spread\nreligious extremism. Let us look at Zakir Naik\u2019s Peace Television. Both India\nand Bangladesh banned this TV channel over spreading extremism, but Sri Lanka\nwaited to do that until the Easter Sunday carnage. That should not happen in\nthe future. The seventh proposal is monitoring the non-Government organisations\n(NGOs) by the NGO Secretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the NGOs should publicise their accounts, so, the people would be able\nto see as to how they received their funds and how they spent them. All illegal\nimmigrants must be deported immediately. That is our eighth proposal. We should\nidentify from which countries these illegal immigrants arrive in Sri Lanka the\nmost. Then we should cancel the on arrival visa facility for such countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that We should officially inform the United Nations High\nCommissioner for Refugees that we are not liable to take refugees into our\ncountry. Especially refugees like Rohingya. They come with a hatred of\nBuddhists in Myanmar. Such people can be easily manipulated against the\nBuddhists in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, President\u2019s Counsel Manohara de Silva and several other lawyers\nare preparing two draft legislations covering the above proposals. We hope to\npresent them to Parliament as soon as possible. Then we can identify who\ngenuinely loves the country and who does not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Methmalie Dissanayake Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Leader and Parliamentarian Udaya Prabhath Gammanpila yesterday (13) said, both the PHU and National Freedom Front (NFF) would not support any politician that obtains support from Western Province Governor Azath Salley and Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to form a Government at future Elections. He made this remark during a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88742","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=88742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}