Posted on April 25th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen being taken to prison when he was arrested in October last year
All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader and ex-Cabinet Minister Rishad Bathiudeen is a prominent Sri Lankan politician, who is very often in the news for the wrong reasons.
The 48-year-old Bathiudeen hailing from Dharapuram in the Mannar District is an engineer by training. Known widely as Rishad, he was first elected to Parliament from the Northern Vanni electoral district in December 2001. He has been consistently elected as Vanni MP since then in 2004, 2010,2015 and 2020. Rishad has also served continuously from January 2007 to November 2019 as Cabinet Minister in the governments of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena. Currently his party the ACMC has 4 MP’s and 169 Local Authority Members.
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Sri Lankan Muslim Congress Seeks End to Violence in Afghanistan
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a key political party in Sri Lanka, in a statement has urged all parties to the Afghan conflict to avoid escalating violence “which will undoubtedly be counterproductive to attaining lasting peace.”
“The indiscriminate violent attacks, which are frequently reported, have the potential to derail the much-hyped nascent peace process. We have followed developments in Afghanistan with grave concern,” the statement said.
It also mentioned that the Sri Lankan nation has suffered immensely and has sacrificed many lives due to political violence.
“Acts of terror to achieve political objectives, unfortunately, target innocent civilians, including children and women, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion,” the party said, adding that “we unequivocally condemn the ongoing terror attacks taking place in Afghanistan and wish to point out that there is no Islamic justifica