Speaker to deliver Bakeer Markar memorial lecture

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya will deliver the 21th Annual Bakeer Markar commemoration lecture on September 19 at 4.45 p.m. at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo. He will speak on “A Vision for an Inclusive Sri Lanka”.

These annual lectures are organised by the Bakeer Markar Centre for National Unity with a view to fostering national unity and encouraging fresh thinking on unity in diversity, key ideals of the late M. A. Bakeer Markar. The event is open to the public.

Following the demise of M. A. Bakeer Markar, a former Speaker of the Sri Lanka Parliament and Governor of the Southern Province, the Bakeer Markar Centre for National Unity was established in 1997 with the support of close associates of the Bakeer Markar family.