Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Parliament sessions will be restricted to two days this week instead of four days amid fuel crisis in the country, Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena said.Lanka’s economy is experiencing extreme fuel shortages, soaring food prices and a lack of medicines. “In view of the crisis we have decided to limit the parliamentary sessions for today and tomorrow,” Gunawardena said. When Parliament met this morning, the Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya party and the Marxist National People’s Power party said they were boycotting the sessions to protest the government’s inaction to tackle the current economic crisis. (PTI)
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