Addressing a public rally held in Chilaw, Parliamentarian Nimal Lanza said that Sri Lanka is the only country in the world that has recovered from an unprecedented economic crisis in a very short period of time. He said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe deserves the credit for freeing the country from the worst economic crisis.
“The people are now lining up to ensure the victory of Ranil Wickremesinghe. All of us must come together to ensure Ranil Wickremesinghe’s victory, because he brought the country out of a crisis when the country was without petrol, diesel, gas, electricity and transportation”, he said
Lanza said that President Wickremesinghe faced the challenge without fear and with confidence. “We all have a responsibility to make sure the leader who accepted the challenge wins, while Sajith and Anura avoided accepting it”, he said.
He added that the people died in queues, people died without medicine, they suffered hours and days in queues to obtain fuel to go to work. “Luckily for the country, Ranil Wickremesinghe took it over.”
“We should, according to our conscience, make Ranil Wickremesinghe the President of this country on September 21 to fulfil our obligations towards the leader who rescued the country”, he said
He said the oil tankers were waiting outside Colombo harbour until payments were made for the fuel. “The country did not have foreign reserves. There was no fuel and livelihood of fishermen was affected due to lack of fuel for their boats.”
“Think about the situation in this country two years ago. Foreign banks did not accept LCs opened in Sri Lankan banks, and the country was in greater difficulty in importing medicine and fuel.
He said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe rebuilt the country that was said to be impossible to rescue. No leader was prepared to accept this challenge, but Ranil did it.
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