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    • Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Increase in debt during yahapaalanaya 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/7/2023)
      FALSE: When Ranil Wickremesinghe came to power in 2015, our debt was LKR 8.5 trillion […] In 2020, the country’s debt […] stood at LKR 15 trillion […] Approximately, Ranil’s five years put the country more in debt by LKR ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Money Printing and Debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: From the day this government came into power to March this year, LKR 831 billion has been printed. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Mawbima, 3 May 2021

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake - National Wealth 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 3/2/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: Today, 36% of our country’s national wealth is generated from the Western Province. The North Central Province’s contribution to our country’s national wealth is 5%. The contribution of the North Western ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: estate workers 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 2/21/2019)
      TRUE: “They [estate workers] spend 50 percent of their earnings on food." - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 25 January 2019, Daily News

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment 

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      FactCheck       (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

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)
      FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rape statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2019)
      TRUE: 1,600 [young] girls are raped every year - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Divaina, 25 October 2019

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Remittances 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/5/2022)
      TRUE: Foreign remittances increased during the first 5 months of 2021. It increased by USD 450Mn. However, it started to drop from the sixth month onwards… This January, it [remittances] reduced by 62%.– Anura Kumara ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Transport 

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      Media Team       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/9/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: Only 52% of our country uses public transport… 48% of the people use private transportation. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Daily News, 30 November 2019

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)
      TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ...

    • Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: Forest Cover 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/5/2021)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka's forest cover is only 29.2 percent. - Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Lankadeepa, 9 December 2020

    • Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes. - ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina

    • Anuradha Jayaratne: Prison population 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2023)
      TRUE: As of today, the total number of inmates in prisons are 28,468. […] the number of drug-related offenders has increased rapidly. As per today 50.3% of the total inmates are people who were imprisoned for drug related ...

    • Asela Gunawardana: Community Transmission 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/12/2021)
      FALSE: “If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation”. - Asela ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Foreign Departures 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-14)
      PARTLY TRUE: 500 individuals from our country go abroad on a daily basis. In the recent past, between 180,000 and 200,000 individuals per month have gone abroad. The reason why they go abroad is because it’s difficult to ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Government Revenue Estimates 

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      FactCheck        (www.factcheck.lk , 1/20/2023)
      FALSE: …The [2023] budget presented this time is seeking the highest revenue in the entire history of Sri Lanka. Compared to last year, this year’s revenue shows an increase of 70%. In Sri Lanka, at no point has the revenue ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Health budget allocations 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/17/2019)
      TRUE: In 2010, LKR 53.1 billion was allocated for free healthcare; in 2015, we allocated LKR 139.5 billion. In 2016, [it was] LKR 174 billion. In 2019, an amount of LKR 194.5 billion were allocated. This means that 10% of ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)
      TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Passenger transport 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/7/2019)
      TRUE: As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Divaina, June 24