The National Bhikkhu Front (NBF) yesterday declared a National Awareness Week, from July 06, on the bad impacts of the implementation of 13th Amendment. They plan visit around 1,000 temples and meet the Maha Nayaka theras after which, there would be an islandwide awareness campaign.

The NFF believes that the implementation of the 13th Amendment is the legal way of devolving power which was rejected by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ‘Mahinda Chinthanaya’. The policy promised a unitary state. President Rajapaksa recently said that they will implement a very Sri Lankan method as a political solution, but now the government is derailed, the NBF said.

President of the NBF, Senior Lecturer of Sri Jayewardenepura University, Ven. Dambara Amila thera, told a press conference that the government was still not in a clear position to comment about implementation of the 13th Amendment. Government "Ministers are issuing statements contradicting each other. "Recently, Senior Presidential Advisor MP Basil Rajapaksa, Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa went to India. They told Indian media after discussions with the Indian delegation, that the Indian government has accepted Sri Lanka’s proposal. It has proved that the government is going to implement the 13th Amendment under pressure by the Indian government. We can’t allow it," Amila thera said.