Sri Lanka is fast becoming a colony of India in the aftermath of the agreements signed on 05 April, said the Frontline Socialist Party’s (FSP) education secretary Pubudu Jayagoda.
Speaking to journalists in Nugegoda yesterday (10), he said at the same time, Sri Lanka was gradually losing its grasp on each sector.
Jayagoda made special references to Indian interventions in medicines supplies and Colombo Dockyard.
Highlighting the recent sale of a 51% stake in Colombo Dockyard to India’s state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, he claimed the transaction was carried out with undue haste, lacking proper board approval, shareholder notification, and transparency, effectively transferring a strategic national asset to a foreign power.
Recalling the recent move by the Ministry of Health to procure 113 types of essential medicines via inter-governmental arrangements, bypassing the established procurement mechanisms of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC), he said that such actions undermine the national drug regulatory system and pose risks to public health.
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