The Hon. Amila Prasad
Hon. Amila Prasad questioned the decline in profits and dividends of institutions under the President, linking it to broader concerns about the management of state enterprises, including the removal of Ashok Leyland and alleged tender fraud. He said the Opposition raises such issues as part of its public mandate, despite anticipated criticism or attacks through political and social media channels.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Next, look: profits and dividends of institutions under the President have decreased. Then my question arises again. You came to run state enterprises. It is good to grow enterprises. On one side you remove Ashok Leyland; on the other side profits of state enterprises are falling. There are major issues including tender fraud. As the Opposition, we raise these issues not out of personal dislike, but to fulfill the responsibility given to us by the people. You can marshal your groups and social media teams to attack our speeches; that’s fine—we expect that. Those who didn’t vote for us and voted for you—the owners of social media are here too—what we want is for them to listen to our speech. Bring your comment brigades and oppose our views. Whatever you say, we will do our utmost to fulfill our Opposition duties.
¶ 02 Thank you for this opportunity, Hon. Deputy Speaker.
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Cite as: The Hon. Amila Prasad. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 October 2025. No. 22973. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/7588