The Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha
Nalin Bandara Jayamaha welcomed the Government’s apparent shift toward alignment with India, saying such economic, political and cultural cooperation was acceptable and beneficial. He criticised earlier campaign claims that grid interconnection, pipelines, and other arrangements with India would threaten Sri Lanka’s sovereignty or resources, and called on the Government to retract those statements rather than “spin” them.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I am happy about your change; it is good for the country. We must align with India. But during the campaign you said interconnecting the grid hands India the switch to cut our power; pipelines would let India take our gas; monopolies would go to India; that aligning with certain other countries was better. Now do not spin stories. Retract those statements. Even if you accept India as a big brother, we have no issue; we accept economic, political and cultural alignment. But you did not. Yesterday one of your people spoke about the PTA—
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Cite as: The Hon. Nalin Bandara Jayamaha. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 18 December 2024. No. 1735286612086554. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12108