Alcohol prices upped to fund govt. campaign for NWP polls – Daya Gamage

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Created On Thursday, 01 August 2013 15:24

Category: General

UNP national organizer Daya Gamage, in a statement, says fear of exposure among corrupt politicians and heads of state departments and institutions following the releasing of the COPE report and the president’s warning that he has the ‘files of everyone’ were the reasons behind the fire at the CWC chairman’s office.

The government is deceiving the people in its campaign for the upcoming polls, he says, adding that UPFA candidates are distributing free alcohol in the north western and central provinces.

After promising to halt alcohol use, the government has once again raised excise taxes to further increase its massive income.

With this increase, addicts have begun to patronizing illicit liquor dens and producing the booze themselves, and the media has exposed that as many as 85 liquor shops in the country are owned by government MPs and their cronies.

It is clear that government politicians are spending the monies earned by selling liquor to the people on their campaign for the NWP polls.

Without having a correct economic strategy, the government has also increased import taxes on vehicle spare parts.

By holding Deyata Kirula and other public deceptions that target elections, the government is giving temporary solutions to public issues, and I pray that wisdom dawns on the people to understand the true nature of the government and take correct decisions at the elections by understanding the deception by the corrupt in the government, he adds.