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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BINGU_PUTHA" data-source="post: 19670558" data-attributes="member: 469273"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" />Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has criticised “neo-fascists” in Sri Lanka for opposing closer ties with India.Pointing out that there were certain “misguided Sinhalese Buddhists of this country who wear their ethnicity and religion on their sleeve,” Mr. Samaraweera said that instead of being grateful to India for having given the majority of Sri Lanka “their great religion, Buddhism”, such persons feared India the most.“Whenever a bridge over the Palk Straits to connect our two nations is proposed, they get into a paranoid frenzy that all of India is waiting to drive over that bridge and make Sri Lanka their home. When trade agreements are discussed, they see swarms of Indian doctors and barbers coming across to flood the Sri Lankan market,” he said.Delivering a talk at the Sri Lanka-India Society on Sunday, the Minister was referring to reactions among a section of parties and groups to reports on the Indian government’s plan to build a sea bridge and tunnel connecting Rameswaram with Thalaimannar in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. His observations were also made in the context of steps being taken to get Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement signed between the two countries.As India forges ahead to become an economic superpower, Sri Lanka must see its neighbour’s progress “not as a threat but as a great opportunity to prosper and develop. Sri Lanka must realise that like Canada, Hong Kong or Vietnam, we are blessed with a historic opportunity by way of our location right next to one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies”, he said.At the same time, the Foreign Minister called upon India to be “vigilant to the needs, hopes and aspirations” of ordinary Sri Lankans. He said recurring issues such as the bottom-trawling crisis in the North needed to be resolved.<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/neofascists-opposing-closer-indiasri-lanka-ties-minister/article8180653.ece" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/neofascists-opposing-closer-indiasri-lanka-ties-minister/article8180653.ece</a></blockquote>

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