18 August 2021 12:00 am Views - 77
By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera
What is needed at present is not a Cabinet reshuffle but to allocate Ministries on a scientific basis immediately, Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera said yesterday.
The Thera said this while claiming that there was no scientific basis in the allocation of Cabinet of Ministers. He told parliament that the Ministers were not in a position to take decisions as some institutions had been Gazetted under State Ministries.
“Our Cabinet is not at all scientific. We need to allocate Ministries on a scientific basis rather than reshuffling the Cabinet,” he said.
Ven. Rathana Thera said it was vital to initiate a board comprising of experts to take decisions with regard to the Covid pandemic and pointed out that assistance of the army or the security forces should be sought to implement the decisions.
The Thera said representation of the Ayurvedic practitioners and indigenous medical practitioners in the Covid Task Force was minimal and pointed out the need to increase their participation even more.