Please. Mr. President.

Our president gloriously said today “Buddhists can soon visit Solosmasthana without fear”. It is wonderful. Fear is always a bad thing, if not the worst. It is always a fearful thing to drive in Kandy road or any other road, to Solosmasthana or to grandmother’s house, Monday or Sunday. I’m delighted to hear; soon I can drive toward any direction of the country without been scared of a TATA bus run me over at the next junction or a VIP convoy pass me by at the speed of light without considering whatever happen to me or to the old lady across the road holding her three year old grandson. But most of all, most of us like to call Sri Lanka a "Buddhist country" and it is wonderful now not only my grandmother, but all the Buddhists around the world, and beyond, able visit those places without fear and enjoy a cold glass of “pol-pala”, we sell front of those religious places. It can refresh you any time of the day.

Since we are at it, Mr. President, could I kindly request you to be kind enough to grant visa to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to visit Solosmasthana too. It must be awfully bad feeling for him to be rejected again and again, all these years, by so call a Buddhist country, for him to visit temple of tooth. As far as I know, he have the all the three mandatory requirements to visit the temple. He doesn’t have headwear on. No footwear on and his legs are all covered. And if it not, still we can provide him a sarong, just like how we do with all the fat old retired white people and those Japanese tourists in shorts. So why Sri Lankan Buddhists keep on rejecting him visa to visit Temple of Tooth? Not to talk politics or anything that sort. Just for him to visit Temple of tooth, have lunch at Awanhala if he like and take a photo front of the baby elephant and go back to his place. Mr. President, You end the war. You brought peace. So let one of the most peaceful men in the world visit Solosmasthana too. Please.