“In a few days, this country will fall to the point where a person cannot take a parcel of rice and walk along the road. Even now, if someone walks along the wearing a necklace, it would be snapped. The economy has fallen to zero. Those who know how to build the economy have been discarded. Those who can work have been discarded. A specialist doctor in the Ministry of Health has been put to cut grass. The other specialist doctor has started making poonak. So how does a country function?
People criticize us on social media. Reverend, are you happy now? Is the country religious now? They ask us. We have no answer to these. We did not bring this government to hear these. We did not think that people would be disgusted with the government so soon. In the time of the Buddha, Kisagothamiya was told to bring mustard from a house where no death has taken place. Now we have to ask this government to bring a handful of mustard from a house that does not blame this government. ”
Ven. Murutthettuwe Ananda Thero expressed these views at a media briefing held at the Narahenpita Abhayaramaya.
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