Sri Lankan politician distributing sarees with funds for increasing nutrition

The government Councillors of the Southern Provincial Council of Sri Lanka accuse that the Chief Minister Shan Vijayalal de Silva is using funds available for the development work to activities like distributing sarees.

Southern Provincial Councillor Ajith Prasanna charges that the Chief Minister is distributing 16,000 sarees to the mothers using Rs. 20 million of Provincial Council funds.

He said that the fund needed to go for projects that increase the nutrition of the mothers.

However, the Chief Minister explained that the project of distribution of sarees commenced on a request of the Mothers' Health Societies of the three districts of the Southern Province.

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