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Udaya Gammanpila: National anthem in Tamil
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/30/2020)
FALSE: [According to Article 7 of the constitution] Sri Lanka's national anthem is "Sri Lanka Maatha"… if anything other than the words of "Sri Lanka Maatha" contained in the third schedule is considered to be the national ...
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)
TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021
Bandula Gunawardana: Active Liability Management Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/26/2019)
FALSE: This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any ...
Mangala Samaraweera: Media freedom
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/2/2018)
TRUE: Sri Lanka’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has moved from 165 to 131.
- Mangala Samaraweera, 28 September 2018, Divaina
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/21/2019)
FALSE: "In the past four years, the UNP-led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% of the total national debt that was outstanding as at the end of December 2014 from the loans taken in the six decades after gaining ...
Wimal Weerawansa: Industrial Income and Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/31/2021)
TRUE: Industries occupy a special place in the national manufacturing process in Sri Lanka which is about 26.4% of the national GDP, and only a very low percentage of about 10% contributes to exports. - Wimal Weerawansa, ...
S. M. Marikkar: COVID-19 Vaccination
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: Not even 2 million of the Sri Lankan population has been vaccinated as of now. We have vaccinated the least number of people in the region. - S.M. Marikkar, Aruna, 26 May 2021
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Debt restructuring
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/18/2023)
TRUE: Programme financing gaps: debt service reduction during 2023-27 should be sufficient to close external financing gaps. Under staff baseline scenario, US$17 billion in debt service reduction is required, including the ...
Nalaka Godahewa: Population dependence on agriculture sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/19/2021)
FALSE: Although the contribution by the agriculture sector to the country’s economy is less than 10%, the segment of the population that is dependent on the sector for income is one-third of this country’s population, [that ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)
TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021