Gotabaya requests Ven. Kashyapa Thera to quit hunger strike

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested Venerable Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera to call a halt to the protest fast that he commenced against the signing of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement this morning (05).

The former Defence Secretary has addressed a letter to Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera making the said request.

Rajapaksa says, he would make sure to revoke the agreements that are already signed by the government with foreign countries, from the time the Presidential Election was announced until its results are released, if they are contrary to national interests.

Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardena visited Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera to deliver Rajapaksa’s letter to him.

Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera, addressing a three-paged letter to the government, resorted to a protest fast this morning, stressing that he cannot silently watch the motherland being ‘betrayed’ to a foreign country.

He urged the government to halt the signing of the MCC agreement with the United States.