Making Buddhism state religion in draft charter helps passing it: Buddhist group
Submitted by editor2 on Wed, 23/03/2016
A Buddhist network submitted a list of 100,000 alleged supporters of a campaign to enshrine Buddhism as a state religion to the charter drafters, saying it will help to pass the draft constitution through the public referendum.
According to Matichon Online, at the Government House, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 22 March 2016, Pol Maj Gen Rungroj Pekanant, president of the World Peace Organisation, members of a National Network to Protect Buddhism and representatives of Thai Sangha (Buddhist monks), submitted a list of 100,000 names to Supoj Kaimook, deputy chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC).
The group claimed that the list was collected from people who supported the campaign.... (read more)...http://prachatai.org/english/node/5964