Religion and constitution of Sri Lanka

There is a big debate to have Buddhism as foremost position as religion in Sri Lanka constitution.
I think those who want to give prominence to religion, ethnicity, race, cast etc. Want to forget poverty of the masses. They don't care about poor as long as their narrow nationalist ideas prevail. There is evidence to show countries with nationalistic ideas has not prosper. I the other hand prosperous countries have distance these ideas long ago. This can be seen even in specific cities of a country. Development is hampered in nationalistic biased cities.

So constitution should not have religion. Countries should be secular. More educated are the masses, countries becomes secular. So religions are short lived. But on the other hand everyone dies. So people will always seek religion for refugee.

There is a way for state not to get involved in Buddhism, but for it to thrive independently. (But it can also create a monster that can grow beyond expectations). May be, some know about this, and don't what it. But the public should know the possibility.

Money is power. Same is for religion. It can be seen in Christianity. Pope and Vatican control most of its affairs.  There is corruption but it is controlled.

In Buddhist Sri Lanka all corruption is uncontrollable. The reason is government is doing everything. Even all monetary donations by devotees goes to the government treasury. Then all the asserts of the temples land and business are theoretically managed by the state. This is because our constitution has foremost position for Buddhism. That is in theory, but everyone knows what happens, they lament but does nothing. Like in all other sectors corruption is everywhere in managing Buddhism. The politicians, the government officials and monks steal. The reason is public has given authority to them, to do it. We need to peal out whenever we can sections from government control. That is the only way to stop corruption.

Create an autonomous body for Buddhism by law. Give it to control and manage all religious assets and donations by public. Have a Supreme board like body to create delegated legislation. This board can be compromised by Maha Sanga of nikayas. They can employ lawyers,  accountants and auditors.

With this method corruption will be greatly reduced. Also the Maha Sanga will have the control to check on rouge monks.

We will have a secular state and everyone except the corrupt will be happy.