Bandula  Gunawardena Suggests Arjuna Mahendran is Behind Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA

Attending a press conference yesterday (13) MP Bandula Gunawardana  said that current government threw petrol at the fire that is the Sri Lankan economy. It doesn’t help the disastrous economy. The  very same people, who destroyed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government’s work  call for the fuel prices to be reduced now, says Gunawardana.

He accuses former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran being behind Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) signed between the two countries.

The SLSFTA is a betrayal agreement and that through that Singapore is allowed establish manpower agencies in Sri Lanka.

This agreement allows the workers who couldn’t come through the ETCA agreement to come via Singapore.

He says that the agreement was signed by deceiving the President, Minister Malik Samaraweera and the Cabinet.

He also calls the Secretary to the Ministry for a public debate, along with any legal association or any other association on this issue.