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JVP demands Bill to bake Prima
Wednesday, 2 January 2008 - 9:36 AM SL Time
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The JVP is demanding that the Government brings in an urgent Bill to amend the clause in the Consumer Affairs Authority Act, which made way for the Prima Company to increase the price of wheat flour as and when it wanted.
`We too could bring a Bill to amend this but according to procedure it will take another six months if we submit it now. The best option is for the government to bring an urgent Bill and then we too would support it to scrap the law permitting Prima to raise flour prices without the Government`s approval,` JVP Parliamentary Group Leader Wimal Weerawansa told The Island yesterday.
`When this Act was passed by the then UNF Government, we stood against it and pointed out that the offending clause would be dangerous. Yet, neither the UNP nor the PA, which was in the Opposition then, saw the point we raised. The Government is now helpless in the face of the monopoly by a private company,` he said.
`We have discussed this issue and our position is that scrapping the law alone would not be enough. The Government should think of moving from wheat flour to alternatives and must revitalise an indigenous food culture which would not depend on foreign companies,` Weerawansa said.
The JVP will commence a campaign, both inside and outside Parliament, to fight against the monopoly and expects that the Government to bring an urgent Bill to amend the clause in the Consumer Affairs Authority Act 2003, he said.
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Ramz
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 2 Jan 2008 07:31:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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JVP is trying to show up their gutz now.....want to prove to public that 'they are from them and for them'...after they have disappointed them with budget voting scandle..
before all......JVP should understand that Prima won't be able to reduce the price due to some reasons...I have mentioned them in brief earlier in LNP..
1- they are paying a good money to government (in form of different types of taxes..VAT& others....plus 10% maybe)...if GoSL wants them to cut off prices, they have to free them from paying such taxes and facilitate them....
2- there are thousands of employees..Prima should pay their salaries and services they require...to meet rocket rising CoL in sri lanka....Plus rocket rising oil price also causes them more expenses and enough problems in this regard...operation of machines and transportations..
3 - there is a great demand for wheat flour in whole world now...due to lot of reasons
- using wheat for generating power in wheat producing rich countries, less cost than oil
- using wheat for animals...feeding
- due to natural disasters (Hurican, volcanos, floods, tsunami, heavy rain, fire...etc)....production of wheat has comparably gone down during the period of 2005-2007.....so, wheat production does not meet the global demand.......
I don't think Prima can do anything about it...(I'm not supporting Prima)...but this is the fact....there is a price hike in wheat flour & milk powder all around the world...not only in sri lanka........JVP's maxism theories don't work out here...
Edited By - Ramz - 2 Jan 2008 07:33:01 GMT |
justman
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 3 Jan 2008 01:09:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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If this member of this party follow the present day Chinese government policies,with respect to similar situation,then he may have to withdraw his comments and adopt a new progressive policy.One can't legislate against price rises,when the gosl is printing money, regardless and there is a scarcity of wheat,that is been increasingly used to make bio fuels.If they are not happy will Prima,then buy them out and run like the Mihin Air.
Edited By - justman - 3 Jan 2008 01:10:01 GMT |
raigamakolla
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 3 Jan 2008 04:18:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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Let's eat rice, rice flour, rice cake, rice bread, rice biscuits, rice this, rice that.
Let's eat cassava. Let's eat sweetpotatoes. Let's eat breadfruit. Let's eat jack fruit.
We have a lot of local food. We we eat wheat flour bread??? |
Gaja
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 3 Jan 2008 04:20:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Government should think of moving from wheat flour to alternatives and must revitalise an indigenous food culture which would not depend on foreign companies,' Weerawansa said.
Confirming how undemocratic JVP is. No wonder we have this war against dictatorship and self governance.
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam - Australian Tamil / Prima alumni
Edited By - Gaja - 3 Jan 2008 04:21:31 GMT |
Magnum357
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 7 Jan 2008 14:13:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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The buying power of the Rupee is plumetting at a rate, that is the main reason for the skyrocketing prices of all consumer goods in Sri Lanka.
If the prices of items were escalating to such an extent in the international markets it would be a fact reflected all over the world. No one in any other country is complaining agonizingly as in Sri Lanka about a bread price increase or a oil price increase or a flour price increase etc etc any where else except in Sri Lanka. The Rupee is so weak that it hardly can buy anything now. That is due to disastrous economic management very low domestic productivity, waste and corruption.
So baking Prima with some stupid Bill is not going to work any magic!
Edited By - Magnum357 - 7 Jan 2008 14:16:18 GMT |
Sintamus
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7 Jan 2008 14:23:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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| JVP knows that SLFP can be dictated to do anything that will defeat the latter and push itself up the power ladder. |
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