Sri Lanka’s energy minister should refrain from raising fuel prices: SLPP

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said the energy minister should take responsibility for the rise in fuel prices. SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said in a statement that they have reasonable doubts whether such decisions are made on purpose to discredit the SLPP and its leaders. they said the government had to face this critical situation because the minister concerned had not made the right decisions in a timely manner, and said the SLPP believed that the people hard hit by the Covid pandemic should not do so are more heavily burdened. rising fuel prices and this situation should be changed.