Despite the switch in administration, what exists today is an extension of the fraudulent Rajapaksa regime, said Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa speaking at a discussion with a group of Social Media activists at the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Head Office yesterday (12).
The disclosure made by the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) at the Committee on Public Enterprises (CoPE) would be very serious and on whose pressure has he later withdrawn his comments must be disclosed, Premadasa noted.
The Opposition Leader questioned how such irresponsible statements are being made by M.M.C. Ferdinando the CEB Chairman, who had earlier claimed at the CoPE that the Wind Power Plant project was being handed over to the Indian company ADANI without calling in for procurement due to the insistence of President Rajapaksa based on what he had described as the ‘pressure’ exerted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, later to be withdrawn saying that he had made such a comment due to tension.
Accordingly, the privileges of the people’s representatives and the people of the country were violated by the drama in which the CEB Chief was lying to cover up a truth he had earlier claimed, Premadasa emphasised.
He added that what is happening today as usual is oppression, theft and exploitation of the people in the extension of the Rajapaksa regime.
MIAP
