'UNP, JVP have no viable economic policy'

Neither the UNP nor the JVP has a viable national economic development policy.

During the elections held in one year both parties that claimed to be pro-people had come up with two different facades and the common policy program they presented under the swan symbol has been discarded by the JVP, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Nandana Gunatilaka said.

It was only a 10 page document and they claimed it could be implemented to achieve successful economic development but they do not speak anymore about it. But the Mahinda Chintana policy of the UPFA was implemented as a practical reality and the extension of that policy Mahinda Chintana Idiri Dekma (Way forward) is also to be implemented for the rapid economic development of the country, Gunatilaka said.