In the latest of its presidential commission appointments, Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government would be appointing another to investigate reported attempts to create rifts within the Buddhist clergy.
"We will appoint a presidential commission to determine whether anyone tried to create divisions within the Malwatte Chapter," Mr Wickremesinghe was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying whilst addressing a religious event at a Buddhist temple.
“A person could be stripped of his civic rights if he is found to have worked towards a division within the chapters of the Maha Sangha," he warned, adding that the government would consider adding a clause in the new constitution to prevent divisions within the Buddhist clergies chapters.
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