JVP asks those who voted for DDO to apologise to workers

The JVP yesterday said that those who had voted for the government’s Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) plan in Parliament on Saturday should apologise to the country’s workforce for having endangered the EPF.Addressing the media at the party office in Pelawatte, the former MP and Politburo member Sunil Handunnetti said that the DDO plan would adversely impact the EPF.

“Primary dealers such as Perpetual Treasuries Ltd., private bondholders and banks involved in the CB bond transaction have been left out from the debt restructuring process.”

While the government is giving step-motherly treatment to the EPF of the working people in its DDO programme, cronies of the government, including primary dealers and private bondholders, have been exempted from the debt restructuring process, Hadunnetti said, adding that the Central Bank Governor and the Finance Minister had misled the whole Cabinet and Parliament.