President Mahinda Rajapaksa will have to rule the country
for the next 300 years to fulfill the promises made by him to the people,
veteran translator Gamini Viyangoda said.
Addressing a rally in Nugegoda against a third term as
Executive President for Mahinda Rajapaksa, Viyangoda pointed out that some of
the promises made by the President to the people in fact was demeaning to the
intelligence of the general public.
Citing an example, he said the President has pledged to
send on Haj all Muslims in the country who cannot afford to go on the
pilgrimage.
Viyangaoda explained that there a approximately 2 million
Muslims in the country out of which about 500,000 would have gone the Haj
pilgrimage.
He noted that it costs around Rs. 500,000 for each person
to make the Haj pilgrimage. The entire cost to send 1.5 Muslims on Haj would
cost a whopping Rs. 175,000 million to the government.
“There is also a quota for the Haj pilgrimage. Sri Lanka
last year received a quota of 3,800 visas for Muslims to go on Haj. Even if the
quota is increased to 5,000 visas, President Mahinda Rajapaksa will have to be
the President for the next 300 years to send the Muslims in the country on
pilgrimage to the Middle East,” Viyangoda said.
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