PP MP 'sorry' for critical comments

A People's Party (PP) MP from Nonthaburi province has apologised for controversial remarks made during a parliamentary debate on public funding for Buddhist missionary activities.

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On Friday, Nont Pisarnlimjaroenkit, PP MP for Nonthaburi's Constituency 8, proposed cutting a 5-million-baht budget earmarked for morale-building among monks, which covered trips for 100 monks to four Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Las Vegas in the United States, as well as India and Nepal.

He questioned the value of the budget allocation, saying: “Why do monks need [high] morale to do their work? It costs 50,000 baht per person just to go there and pay respects to something we do not even know about.”