The Hon. K.V. Samantha Viddyarathna
K.V. Samantha Viddyarathna said the Government would investigate the matters raised and take action against corruption regardless of rank, while allowing investigations and courts to determine responsibility, including among officials and Opposition members. He undertook to trace any Ministry recommendation relating to chilli cultivation and stated that 400,000 kg of fertilizer had been allocated to Batticaloa, to be sold at Rs. 4,000 per bag with a Rs. 5,000 subsidy.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Chairman, we will inquire into what the Hon. Member raised. Let me be clear: in our government side now, there are no thieves or corrupt. If anything occurs, we will take action irrespective of rank. There are still those on the Opposition side who must face punishment—investigations and courts will decide. Among officials too, if a few are corrupt, there are mechanisms to discipline them, and we will follow due process.
¶ 02 If any recommendation for chilli cultivation was issued by our Ministry, we will trace when and how. On fertilizer, we have allocated 400,000 kg for Batticaloa. A bag costs Rs. 9,000; we will give it at Rs. 4,000, with Rs. 5,000 as a subsidy.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Friday, 14 March 2025 ·No. 1744281136023320 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/26446
Cite as: The Hon. K.V. Samantha Viddyarathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 14 March 2025. No. 1744281136023320. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26446