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MPs should donate portion of their salaries to suffering citizens: Elle Gunawansa Thera

18 Jun 2021

Elle Gunawansa Thera says that it is not appropriate to declare that only the people should suffer in the face of the current Covid situation. Therefore, the Members of Parliament (MPs) should also donate their salaries on behalf of the people, he said. Elle Gunawansa Thera further commented, "What is the donation made by the MPs? Huge sums of money are received as monthly salaries. Vehicles, telephones, all these facilities have been provided to those MPs." "Those MPs should donate at least a percentage to the government if the people donate so much. Shouldn't politicians become such role models in an economic crisis? We continue to help people as much as we can. People come to our temples saying they don't have enough to eat. They say there is no milk powder," the Thera further stressed. He requested that politicians of all parties should come together and make a donation from the salary received from the government for the country.


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