His elevation as Chairman of a task force entrusted to measure draft laws against the Government’s One Country-One Law policy, which has always been a sophisticated slogan to assert the dominance of Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Buddhist majority against the minorities, is a new low even for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has made no secret of the fact that he was a president for the Sinhalese people. Gnansara is the General Secretary of Sinhala extremist group Bodu Bala Sena, which is synonymous with rising anti-Muslim sentiment in Sri Lanka since the organization was first launched in 2012.
