Unreasonable to allocate funds to MR, GR from budget: Vijitha

22 November 2023 06:01 pm Views - 1960

BY AJITH SIRIWARDANA AND YOHAN PERERA

PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- It is unreasonable to make budget allocations to former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa who have been held responsible by the Supreme Court for the economic crisis, NPP MP Vijitha Herath said today.

He told Parliament that it is not reasonable at all to allocate funds to maintain the two Presidents who were instrumental in causing the economic crisis.

The MP said funds allocated from the budget 2024 for former Presidents had been increased from Rs. 84 million to Rs. 110 million.

He said they could not approve of allocating funds for those who were instrumental for the economic crisis when people were struggling to make ends meet.

The MP also said 66.7 percent of the budgetary allocations had been made to the President and that only 21 percent had been allocated to all 27 ministers while only 12 percent had been allocated to the Prime Minister.