Recent incidents involving Buddhist monks point to the need that Sri Lanka should be a secular state, Tamil Progressive Alliance leader Mano Ganeshan.
No religion should get directly involved in politics and being secular will give solutions to many problems, he maintained.
Two monks arrested in Sri Lanka and Japan over sexual abuse and another who was involved in an altercation with police are political activists also involved with groups of racists, said Ganeshan.
Monks involved in politics always opposed political reforms and a political solution to the ethnic question, he noted.
They enjoy special privileges and are immune to law enforcement over their acts against the Tamil and Muslim communities, Ganeshan charged.
