The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake raised a supplementary question regarding the vandalism of the Lalith Athulathmudali statue at the University of Peradeniya four years earlier and the alleged failure to acknowledge him as the originator of the Mahapola scheme. He requested the Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister of Education and Higher Education, to ensure disciplinary action and restore official recognition to the scheme’s founder.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, my second supplementary: Four years ago, a regrettable incident occurred at the University of Peradeniya where the statue of Lalith Athulathmudali was vandalized, and the originator of the Mahapola scheme was not duly acknowledged. As the Hon. Prime Minister, who is also Minister for Education and Higher Education, is present, I kindly ask that appropriate disciplinary action be taken and that due recognition be officially restored to the founder of this concept.
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 February 2026. No. 23331. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29886