Sri Lanka Muslim political leaders who resigned from their Cabinet portfolios are now preparing to agitate across a wide array of local and international stakeholders.
They will shortly be meeting the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative in Sri Lanka and also the powerful Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)–world’s second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN.
“We decided to take several collective actions in the next few days...To meet members of diplomatic community in Sri Lanka, to meet the UN Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, and we will even go and meet Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)–world’s second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN” said the Leader of ACMC Rishad Bathiudeen MP in Colombo recently .
Bathiudeen MP, accompanied by MPs and members of All Ceylon Muslim Congress, was addressing the media on 7 June after he visited the Police HQ in Colombo to lodge his complaints with the IGP.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the collective voice of the Muslim world. OIC has membership of 57 countries in four continents and safeguards to protect the interests of Muslims across the world.
“ MP Wimal Weerawansa has been irresponsibly and falsely accusing me and is creating an inter-ethnic issue by his actions. His conspiratorial accusations are divisive and creating ethnic hatred by their very nature” said Bathiudeen MP, and added:
He complained to the IGP against this, calling for an immediate inquiry and legal action by Police.
He also filed a complaint against Dissanayake MP for the false accusations he is making against his malicious propaganda.
Muslim MPs always cohabited with all other ethnic groups of Sri Lanka and we never supported ISIS or any form of terrorism.
Therefore statements by Weerawansa and Dissanayake MPs are creating a new rift in the country where Muslims were attacked in places like Minuwangoda and Kuliyapitiya by some other terrorists.
It was Dissanayake and Weerawansa MPs who were behind such terrorist acts. Muslim religious leaders, political leaders and Muslims in areas such as Sainthamarudu extended their fullest support to wipe out terrorists as well.
Muslim Ministers did not step down just because these MPs nor the opposition asked them to resign, but out of their own concern for the country, he said adding they respect the call by Most Ven Mahanayake’s to former Muslim Ministers to re-join the government portfolios and see it as a good slap for any extremist and terrorist groups here.
Ministers and Muslim leaders met yesterday and decided to take several collective actions in the next few days and to meet Mahanayaka thera and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leaders of Political Parties including the JVP and TNA and other leaders –Mano Ganeshan, Radhakrishnan, Digambaram, all diplomatic members in Sri Lanka, UN Resident Representative in Sri Lanka
They will even meet Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) –world’s second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN.
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