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The Presidential Secretariat has stated that there was no basis to the media report and follow up reports which intimated the same The alleged Cabinet's decision to scrap the Tamil translation caused much furore in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan government denied allegations that the Tamil translation of the anthem was to be abolished. In any case, in actual practice the unaltered Bengali version is the version sung as the National Anthem, with its words in original Bengali Tatsama, a highly Sanskritized form of Bengali that has Sanskrit words common to both Hindi and Bengali.

Indeed, although sources based on an official Government of India website state that the Indian National anthem was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly of India, the proceedings of the Constituent Assembly of India on 24 January 1950 does not mention that the National Anthem was 'adopted', nor does it mention that it was done so in its Hindi version. DBS Jeyaraja) claimed that it was wrong of Weerawansa to cite India as an analogy because according to them the Indian national anthem was not in Hindi, which is the most widely spoken language of India, but in Bengali, a minority language. The paper's authors had failed to realise that the official lyrics of the Singaporean national anthem are in Malay, a minority language (75% of Singaporeans are Chinese).ДЄ Government minister Wimal Weerawansa had labelled the Tamil version a 'joke' on Derana TV, and had cited India as an analogy. Based on this the paper recommended that the Sri Lankan national anthem only be sung in Sinhala and the Tamil translation be abolished. The paper had drawn on the Singaporean model where the national anthem is sung in the official lyrics and not any translation of the lyrics. The Cabinet's decision had followed a paper on the national flag and national anthem produced by Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister W.

On 12 December 2010 The Sunday Times reported that the Cabinet of Sri Lanka headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa had taken the decision to scrap the Tamil translation of Sri Lanka Matha at official and state functions, as 'in no other country was the national anthem used in more than one language' - even though the national anthems of Canada, South Africa and those of several other countries have more than one language version. The Tamil translation was used even during the period when Sinhala was the only official language of the country (1956вЂ“87). The Tamil translation is sung at Tamil medium schools throughout the country. The Tamil translation is used at official events held in the Tamil speaking regions in the North and East of Sri Lanka. Although the Sinhala version of the anthem is used at official/state events, the Tamil translation is also sung at some events. Due to popularity of the song and it's rich meaning, it's being translated into several other languages. This version is the only version used during international sports and other events. The majority of Sri Lankans (more than 80%) speak the Sinhala language and the Sinhala version is mainly used in Sri Lanka for public and private events. The Sri Lankan national anthem is one of a number that are sung in more than one language: Canada (English, French & Inuktitut), Belgium (French, Dutch & German), Switzerland (German, French, Italian & Romansh), South Africa (Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans & English), Suriname (Dutch and Sranan Tongo), and New Zealand (English & MДЃori). The Second Republican Constitution of 1978 gave Sri Lanka Matha constitutional recognition. There was some controversy over these words in the 1950s, and in 1961 they were changed to their present form, Sri Lanka Matha, Apa Sri Lanka, without Samarakoon's consent. The first line of the anthem originally read: Namo Namo Matha, Apa Sri Lanka.

The anthem was translated into the Tamil language by M. The song was officially adopted as the national anthem of Ceylon on November 22, 1951, by a committee headed by Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne. The first independence day it was sung was in 1952. The song however became very popular throughout the 1940s and 3 years after Sri Lanka's independence, it was chosen to be the national anthem. The original song was written and tuned by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.Later, it was translated and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was then adopted as the national anthem in 1951.It was written when Sri Lanka was still a British colony and was initially written as a tribute to Sri Lanka, expressing sentiments of freedom, unity and independence, and not for the purpose of serving as a national anthem.

Sri Lanka Matha is the national anthem of Sri Lanka.

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