Shiranthi sightseeing tax the government

Jun 03, 2016

Acting foreign minister Dr. Harsha De Silva said the former president’s wife has produced a bill to the government spending a sum of Rs. 2,573.746 rupees per night for four days in a star class hotel to see Vesak in Paris France.

The minister said the other people who joined the ex president’s wife for the tour has also stood in similar rooms and in addition to that a sum of euro 650 and 750 has been spent for housekeeping and another euro 371 has been spent for a mini bar.
 
He said the government has to bear those cost which is a waste of public money.
 
Minister Harsha De Silva said this in a media communiqué held yesterday 2nd at the government information department.