Tissa Attanayake gets it all mixed up
 

by L.B. Wijayasiri in Kandy

UNP Deputy Secretary Tissa Attanayake has taken steps to mix politics with the traditional oil lamp which is a cultural heritage of the people of Sri Lanka and India.

The traditional brass oil lamp carries the cockerel on top of it. But Mr. Attanayake has got some oil lamps modified to suit the UNP by replacing the cockerel (kukula) with the elephant.

He has allocated from his decentralised budgetary allocations Rs. 75,000 for making and supplying 15 modified oil lamps with the elephant symbol on top instead of cockerel to be distributed among 15 voluntary organisations in Yatinuwara electorate.

Public servants and the people in the area expressed their concern over this decision of the UNP Deputy Secretary when the UNP leader has put before the country a 15 point programme of work to develop the country free of party politics. But the UNP Deputy Secretary is utilising public funds to distort cultural objects like the oil lamp.