SLFP furious over Ranil’s insult to DEW; says PM made T-bond confession

SLFP General Secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa

By Chamodi Gunawardana

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday charged that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had essentially made a confession over the Central Bank Treasury bond issue by organising a special media briefing at Sirikotha on Tuesday. 

SLFP General Secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told the media that Prime Minister Wickremesinghe had insulted one of the county’s most respected people, Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Subcommittee Chairman and former senior minister D.E.W. Gunasekara, by issuing false statements over the Treasury bond issue.

“COPE Subcommittee Chairman Gunasekara is a respectable and decent politician. He worked efficiently to solve problems in COPE reports during the past several years. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe must learn to respect him,” Yapa asserted.

Commenting on the SLFP’s new political stance, Yapa said that ‘Empowering the Economy’ would be its new theme for the upcoming election.

“We expect to continue all development projects which have been halted by the new Government. Our plans will be focused on empowering the country’s economy. Actually we do not have time to waste on discussions. We believe it is time to implement our plans,” Yapa noted.

Attacking the United National Party (UNP), Yapa claimed that the UNP did not have innovative ideas to develop Sri Lanka.

“The UNP failed to introduce new systems and do things to develop the country. It only tried to spread false opinions about the SLFP among the public. However, the SLFP has proven that it had new ideas to develop the country,” Yapa emphasised.