By Pradeep Samarakoon and Chaminda Silva

Prisons, Rehabilitation and Re-settlement Minister D.M. Swaminathan has said that under no circumstances will anyone be allowed to remove the existing Buddhist temples or statues in the North, and Buddhist monks and devotees had the right to build temples and statues in any part of the Northern Province.

“If one attempts to do so it will bring disastrous consequences,” the Minister has pointed out.

Swaminathan was responding to a complaint to him in Kilinochchi that there were attempts to build Buddhist temples and Buddha statues.

Courtesy:The Island