Video: Bandula challenges Harsha, Ravi for TV debate

30 May 2015 11:04 am

UPFA Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardane today challenged Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake or Policy Planning and Economic Development deputy minister Harsha de Silva for a debate on any television channel over the current economic crisis in the country.

Mr. Gunawardane told a news conference that Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake and Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran had given false information at a news conference yesterday with regard to the economic situation in the country.

“I, as a person who has worked in Finance Ministry and who had held various ministerial portfolios, am ready to come to an open debate on any television channel about the lies that the finance Minister had told yesterday to the country and the world.  

Mr. Gunawardane said he was ready to debate economic factors such as the bond issue in the Central Bank, interest rates, unemployment and the exchange rate.

He said the country was unprecedently going backward in every aspect economically, politically and culturally under the rule of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. (Ajith Siriwardana)

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