‘Practical approach sans partisan politics needed’

Nimal Wijesinghe Anuradhapura Additional District group Correspondent

Picketing, vituperative criticism and slogans will not help decrease electricity tariffs, or address to the issue. There shall be a practical approach to solve the crisis, said the Economic Development and Agrarian Services Deputy Minister S. M. Chandrasena.

He said President Mahinda Rajapaksa having scrutinized factors resulted in the increase of the electricity bill will bring some relief. The Deputy Minister told the Daily News that Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera was engaged in misleading the masses by saying that the ministers were enjoying subsidies for electricity bills. There is no truth in such statements. The enhanced electricity bill is a national issue which needs to be remedied sans cheap politics. No government will impose oppressive burdens on the public intentionally contrary to good governance, Chandrasena said.