Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein met with the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (Ma Ha Na) on July 7 to discuss the possibility of dissolving the hardline Committee to Protect Nationality and Religion, known by its Myanmar-language acronym Ma Ba Tha.
The chief minister called the nationalist organisation unnecessary and redundant, as the State Sangha already exists.
“When he appealed to Ma Ha Na, he clarified that he had said in Singapore that Ma Ba Tha should be dissolved because there is already an official Sangha organisation … Ma Ha Na accepts this is the truth. The chief minister’s request is reasonable under the Sangha Organisation Law,” U Tun Nyunt, director of the Yangon Region religious department, told The Myanmar Times.(Courtesy of mmtimes.com)
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