The United National Party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) have decided to boycott today’s budget speech, sources said.

UNP sources said the party was boycotting the budget speech while JVP MP Vijitha Herath pointed out that the budget speech would be full of false promises like last year.

“Therefore we have decided to stay away from the budget speech but we will participate in the budget debate and highlight the issues that affect the masses,” MP Herath said.