Meeting for Mervyn

18 August 2010 08:35 pm

By Indika Sri Aravinda


A section of the Buddhist clergy from Gampaha are preparing to hold a convention in Colombo to urge the government to reinstate former Deputy Minister of Highways Mervyn Silva to his government post.

Accordingly, the conference will be held on Friday and the clergy are preparing to submit a signed petition to President Mahinda Rajapaksa following the conference, sources close to the former Deputy Minister told Daily Mirror online.

Some 1500 members of the clergy are expected to sign the petition pressuring the President to reinstate the former Deputy Minister, sources added.

Mervyn Silva was removed from his government post after he tied a Samurdhi official to a tree recently over his failure to attend a dengue eradication program in Kelaniya. (Daily Mirror online)