Urgent task ahead of PM
The assurance PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has given to provide relief to the people who continue to be trampled by various issues and severe shortages that are being experienced in the country, is certainly encouraging.
First and foremost, he has to take immediate steps to give solace to the people who are languishing in queues for days, weeks and some for months - days and nights with the dimming hope of getting a cooking gas cylinder. Also make diesel, petrol and kerosene available to the poor & suffering people.
Similar attention to be focused on bringing the prices down on rice, flour, milk powder, Dahl and other poor man’s daily needs.
As suffering citizens, there is a glimmer of hope and a tiny silver line on the otherwise darkest clouds that have enveloped the country since recently. MARK