News
New social movement to highlight 1956 support of local industry
View(s):A new social movement backed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) aimed at promoting the ideology and values generated after 1956 by the S W R D Bandaranaike government is due to be launched next week.
The group calling itself “Panashaye Daruwo” plan to launch the campaign with a public seminar next Tuesday, at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI), Colombo 7, at 3 pm.
Prof Induragare Dhammarathana Thera, SLFP Deputy Chairman Prof Rohana Luxman Piyadasa, Leader of Tamil United Liberation Front V Ananda Sangari, and Dr Chamila Liyanage and Senaratne de Silva from the ‘Jaathika Sangvidhana Ekamuthuwa’ will address the event.
Prof Piyadasa told the Sunday Times that the idea of the new social movement was to create awareness of the policies and values promoted after 1956, and they hoped to draw the support of the public without confining it to a particular political party.
He said that the production economy promoted during the SLFP governments collapsed after the introduction of the free economy in 1977. Prof Piyadasa said that they strongly believed that the 1972 Republican Constitution introduced during the period of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as the PM was beneficial to the country.
The movement hopes to go on an island-wide campaign after the seminar. He said they would take into consideration Covid-19 guidelines in carrying out the campaign.