Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that Sri Lanka has not taken any loans from any country after facing bankruptcy and that the opposition is misleading the people by claiming that the country’s debt has increased despite knowing otherwise.
He explained that a significant portion of Sri Lanka’s debt is in rupees, but its value fluctuates when defined in dollars. Opposition politicians are exploiting this fluctuation to mislead the public, he said at the ‘Jayagamu Sri Lanka’ People’s Mobile Service District Mobile Service held at the Hakmana Danny Abeywickrama Stadium in Matara on Friday (5).
“After we went bankrupt, we have not taken a loan from any country. However, some politicians are publicly declaring that the debt has increased. They don’t understand that our debt fluctuates when our loans are stated in dollars. They are doing this to mislead the people,” the Minister said.
“Matara district is a historical city. Many cities achieve their historicity from royal days. Matara has a unique history associated with Portuguese, Dutch, and English rule. We are people of the Galle district. When the Portuguese tried to protect their power, Hakmana became a fortress. Matara, with its historical sites like Taraka Fort, Hakmana Fort, and Katuwana Fort, adds beauty to history.
When talking about Matara, Gangarohana should be mentioned. Matara is a province with unique abilities to produce our poets, intellectuals for Sri Lanka, and champion traders, to the extent that there are Matara hotels anywhere in the world. Not bringing even a kitten beyond the Bentara River is due to the skill of the people of Matara. We also say that the people of Matara are smarter, more efficient, and more sophisticated than us in Galle.
If you look at the recent history of Matara, it does not inherit a beautiful history. Coming from the lower side, I remember what happened to the Ulu factory. The JVP set it on fire. Reverend Wellethota Pannseeha, a well-known preacher here, was killed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. If you ask to find a grain of salt in a house that was not affected by the JVP in this province, you will have to search an entire village to find four or five grains of salt. To that extent, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has made this province a place bathed in blood.
My father was also killed according to the politics that took people as victims, the method of coming to the village and hearing the case. Even now, we hear that they are ready to come to the village and hear cases again.
In Parliament, the Opposition Leader asked whether malnutrition is good or bad. The parents of the children go abroad and send money so that these children do not lack nutrition. President Ranil Wickremesinghe gives consolation and rice because he loves those children. We are trying to change the country’s misfortunes and make them good.
“When our children’s parents sent money from abroad, they were told not to because the Rajapaksas would steal it. As much as they wanted to destroy the country’s fuel, gas, medicines, food, drinks, and disrupt education by doing so, people protested by taking to the streets and burning down Parliament, asking them not to send dollars. This front was announced publicly.
But the parents of this children did not believe it and sent 12 billion dollars to this country out of love for their children and the country. That is why the people of this country were able to find food and drink again. Minister Kanchana Wijesekera was able to bring gas and fuel. It was possible to bring fuel to generate electricity. The hope was that the expatriate workers would stop sending money, our factories would not have money to run, they would be demolished, and the pressure caused by this would bring people to the streets, turning the struggle into a barbaric struggle,” the Minister said.
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