Sri Lankan people have given the NPP a two-thirds majority in Parliament to change the disastrous policies that successive governments took after 1977, NPP MP Lakmali Hemachandra told Parliament on Thursday.
“We have been voted in to rebuild national economic sovereignty. It is not often that the ordinary citizens get the chance to wield power. We have a great responsibility to not fail,” she said.
Opposition MPs are in a hurry to distract and manipulate the NPP government to see it fail, she said. “They want us to rush in and make mistakes.” The NPP will take slow and steady steps in the right direction, she said. The NPP does not want senior Opposition leaders to lecture them on how to be leftist.
“Leftism is not hooliganism, she said, adding that the Opposition MPs now taunt that the NPP is following the footsteps of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
“These are the same MPs who insisted a few months ago that the NPP will tear away the agreement with the IMF and destroy the economy. Now they say the NPP said it will withdraw from the IMF programme. This is not true. Our policy proposals clearly state that we will work with the IMF. We have been saying this even before the presidential election. They thought we would act in a certain way, but we didn’t. Now the Opposition MPs are down to fighting a strawman,” she said.
