Sri Lanka's major opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) accused that the government was trying to quit from the responsibility of COVID-19 pushing the people into trouble while four deaths had been reported today by the time the press conference was held.
Addressing a press conference held today SJB Puttalm district MP Hector Appuhamy questioned what the government could deliver to the people with the 20th amendment to the constitution now. Accusing the government of giving up control of COVID-19, the SJB MP questioned what had the government done to the COVID-19 fund, including over 120 million dollar World Bank grant.
He said that the government was not helping the people who were under quarantine as promised to give them a Rs. 10,000 worth pack of food commodities.
He also stated that the SJB was suspicious over the involvement of Brandix company with the second wave of COVID-19. Appuhamy said that the owner of the company had funded the present government during the election campaign and the investigation on Brandix was delaying despite the Attorney General's orders.
Appuhamy said that they had suspicion over holding the Lanka Premier League (LPL 2020) cricket tournament at this moment.
SJB demanded the government to prioritize people's problems worsened by COVID-19 instead of other political programmes like bringing Basil Rajapaksa to parliament and celebrating the government's and ruling party's anniversaries.
