![]() ![]() Shanmugathasan (CP-Peking) orchestrated protests with the objection that Navalar was a caste revivalist. In 1969, when the Federal Party was elevating Navalar, Mr. JCC’s position evinces Jaffna’s ambivalence towards Navalar. Jaffna Bible, 1850: Translated from the Original tongues Peter’s Methodist Church Pastor, The Rev. However, strong letters citing the law from Methodist Conference President Asiri Perera and the St. Vembadi’s Principal Venuka Shanmugaratnam pushed ahead, planting a Navalar statue ready for the ceremony, and demanding the Church cede more lands. In doing so, they break this protective law.Īt the two formerly Methodist Jaffna schools, Jaffna Central College (JCC) and Vembadi Girls’ College, JCC vigourously said “No thanks” to Navalar statues. 8 of 1961” explicitly provides that religious celebrations should not take place in nationalised schools unless those celebrations were, at the time of takeover, associated with the institution that owned the school Yet, in this past month, Jaffna has seen Navalar Day celebrations which have also been attended by the Chief Minister and the Siva Senai.There were attempts to plant the statue of Navalar at nationalised Christian schools during these ceremonies. “The Assisted Schools and Training Colleges (Supplementary Provisions) Act No. Lakshman Kiriella, who stands for Good Governance, support these new UGC requirements to teach engineering? Refraining from critiques of popular figures is now a majoritarian requirement for university recruitment! It is sad that the UGC has become a tool in the hands of Jaffna’s Caste Establishment in putting down religious minorities and keeping us out of the university.ĭo Madam Kumaratunga who stands for National Unity and Reconciliation, and Minister of Higher Education, Hon. Professor Carlo Fonseka swears to this in an amicus curiae brief. When I was rejected for the post of Senior Lecturer at the University of Jaffna, one of the reasons de Silva gave Madam Kumaratunga who kindly queried why, was my writings on Arumuga Navalar, “an iconic figure” to Hindus. Government policy on reconciliation is being obstructed by the UGC Chairman Mohan de Silva’s new communalist requirements to teach engineering. ![]()
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