Harsha clarifies on Arunodhaya Mawatha incident

30 March 2020 02:48 pm

Former MP Dr. Harsha De Silva today commented and clarified on the incident where the Arunodhaya Mawatha in Rajagiriya was put on lockdown for several hours yesterday. Dr. De Silva said the area was locked down temporarily and then reopened under strict curfew protocols. "I request local politicians to be responsible in making statements with regard to this crisis. The statement that the pastor in Arunodhaya Mawatha took a group to a mass in Jaffna, to attempt to link it to the incident with a pastor there with suspected Coronavirus, is baseless and no one went to Jaffna,” he said. He said Kotte Mayor's statement that a pastor took people to Jaffna to try and link it to the issue there created unnecessary tension in the area. "It was found to be false," he said.