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Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020
Namal Rajapaksa: Chief Government Whip
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/4/2022)
BLATANTLY FALSE: If we are to convene parliament, the chief government whip and other key positions must be sworn in as cabinet ministers, if they are to remain in those positions. It was due to this that Hon. Johnston ...
Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/26/2020)
TRUE: We have to pay close to USD 400 million a month in [foreign] debt.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Lankadeepa, 12 October 2020
Sarath Weerasekera: National Flag
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/24/2022)
FALSE: No one will be allowed to distort & disrespect the national flag of our Motherland. Anyone found so shall be thoroughly investigated and charged accordingly under the provisions of our Penal Code.– Official twitter ...
W.D.J. Seneviratne: Foreign and central government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/16/2021)
FALSE: At the time when Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over the government, we had only 72% of foreign loans. However, soon after the Yahapalana government, when we came into power that percentage has been increased up to ...
Mangala Samaraweera: Macroeconomic indicators
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/20/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: …macroeconomic indicators showed positive trends with the country’s $7.6 billion foreign reserves, capable of covering four months of imports, the trade deficit declining to a five year low in February and Sri ...
Niroshan Perera: Decline in industrial sector and exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/20/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: …the exports have decreased by 19.5 %. […] in the first quarter of 2023, the industrial sector has collapsed by 23.4%.
Niroshan Perera, YouTube page of Parliament of Sri Lanka, 23 August 2023
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel price
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/10/2022)
TRUE: The CPC incurs a loss of Rs. 19 from each 92-Octane Petrol litre…and a loss from a litre of diesel is Rs. 52…. The government levies Rs. 42 on a 92-Octane petrol litre…and Rs. 17 on a diesel litre. [The CPC’s loss ...
Harsha de Silva: Multidimensional poverty
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/14/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: The World Bank states that the poverty level which was at 13% in 2019 has by today, increased to at least 25%. The multidimensional Poverty Vulnerability of Oxford University and UNDP (sic) states that when ...