Former Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage last week passed the buck on responsibility for the controversial Chinese organic fertiliser shipment that resulted in Sri Lanka losing millions of dollars amidst a financial crisis while also not receiving any fertiliser stocks.
Aluthgamage told Parliament that although he had been the Cabinet Minister for Agriculture, there had been two other ministers assigned to handle fertiliser and its distribution. He then named Mohan De Silva and Shasheendra Rajapaksa (State Ministers under the Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government) as the ministers in-charge of bringing fertiliser shipments to the country.
The former Minister also claimed that he was one of the ministers who had the most effigies burnt by protesting farmers. “I faced stiff opposition because I tried to give birth certificates to other people’s children. My concerns when the organic agriculture policy was launched islandwide were not heeded,” he added.
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