Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today challenged Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake to revive Sri Lanka’s economy in 06 months.
Addressing the Parliament today, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said he is ready to step down from the premiership in order to allow MP Dissanayake to implement his economic plans.
He further said that MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that he can revive the country’s economy in 06 months.
“That is why I am asking MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake to submit this plan to the President. If you don’t want to go to the President, present it to this Parliament. Let us discuss it in this Parliament. If that plan is better and more effective than the plan we are implementing now, we will implement it. Such a plan would be brilliant enough to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.” PM said
“So if there is such a plan, I am ready to resign and let him take up this position. I am ready to give up my position and support that program. Because the positions I hold are not new to me. At a time when the country has become anarchic and no one has taken responsibility, I have not accepted this position out of desire for the chair” he added.
The Prime Minister challenged MP Dissanayake in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who had attended the Parliament’s morning session today. (NewsWire).
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he is ready to step down if JVP leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake can revive Sri Lanka’s economy in 06 months pic.twitter.com/wmiFz8I71Y
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