Milinda Rajapaksa, a member of the SLPP’s Colombo Municipal Council and a leader on social media operations of the party, said that if there had been a Yahapalanaya government at the time of the covid epidemic, the country’s economy would have been completely destroyed but even in the event of a war, the experts who managed the economy at that time, who were able to manage the economy properly and achieve very high economic growth, can still manage the economy today during the covid pandemic. Therefore, even in the aftermath of the covid disaster, there is good hope for the Sri Lankan economy.
Following is his explanation on social media.