Courtesy Hiru News

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today challenged Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake to revive Sri Lanka’s economy in 06 months.

Addressing the Parliament today, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said he is ready to step down from the premiership in order to allow MP Dissanayake to implement his economic plans

The statement is given below (<a href=”https://www.hirunews.lk/english/309082/pm-shares-road-map-parliament-adjourned-for-10-mts“>Click here for the FULL statement of the PM

“MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that if he is handed over the country, it will be restored in six months. Indeed, it would be a very good thing if it could be done. Taking a country whose economic growth has fallen to negative six or seven to a positive economic growth rate in six months is an action that has never happened in any country in the world. But we cannot rule out Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s opinion that it has not happened so far. It would be great if he has a plan to restore the country within six months. With such a plan, we will be able to restore the economy in a short period of time. Not only that, it also sets a good precedent for the world.

That is why I am asking MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake to submit this plan to the President. If you don’t want to go to the President, present it to this Parliament. Let us discuss it in this Parliament. If that plan is better and more effective than the plan we are implementing now, we will implement it. Such a plan would be brilliant enough to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

So if there is such a plan, I am ready to resign and let him take up this position. I am ready to give up my position and support that program. Because the positions I hold are not new to me. At a time when the country has become anarchic and no one has taken responsibility, I have not accepted this position out of desire for the chair.”