18 October 2022 08:32 am Views - 3243
Government MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage recently asked whether the Rajapaksas were involved with the current fuel shortage in France and for the children who suffer from hunger.
Addressing an event, he said the schoolchildren used to bring lunch boxes without food.
"The children used to go to the playground during lunch time. The English cannot provide food for their schoolchildren.
"We cannot forget that all these happen as a result of the world economic crisis, which came along with the COVID pandemic. The inflation of the country, which was at zero, has increased to 10. There are fuel queues in France. They were unable to provide fuel for the vehicles," he said.
"We ask whether England and France are governed by the Rajapaksas. Are all these issues created by them and are they responsible for those?" Aluthgamage asked.
"This is a global economic crisis. We felt that crisis are intense because we were always accustomed to a subsistence import economy. We used to import everything from other countries," he said.
Therefore, we were unable to manage this economy properly and, as a result of all this, former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa had to resign from his post. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)