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Friday, April 6, 2018

Government To Provide Fertilizer Subsidy To Farmers With Effect From.Tonight

Government will grant new fertilizer subsidy worth Rs.2000 to Farmers for Paddy and other crops cultivation with effect from midnight tonight(06) according to the Minister Of Agriculture Duminda Dissanayake.

Accordingly Paddy farmers will be given a 50 Kilo Gramme Fertilizer Bag contains Urea,MOP And TSP fertilizers worth Rs.500 for Paddy cultivation and a fertilizer bag worth Rs.1500 for other crop cultivation Minister has stressed.

Earlier current government has issued cash vouchers to the farmers to purchase Fertilizer which was not popular among farmers.

Cabinet has recently decided to abolish the cash voucher scheme and re implement the providing of Fertilizer subsidy to farmers implemented during previous government.

Prime Minister Has Requested A Group Of It's MP's To Withdraw The No Confidence Motion Against SLFP Ministers

Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe

had requested the Group of United National Party (UNP) MP's to withdraw the no confidence motion the group had handed over to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya against Six Sri Lanka Freedom Party Ministers according to the Government Information Department.

The no confidence motion against SLFP Ministers was not a decision made by the United National Party according to the Prime Minister ,The Department has said.

No Confidence Motion Against Six SLFP Ministers And Deputy Speaker Handed Over To The Speaker

A group of governing United National

Party(UNP) MP's had today(06)handed over a no confidence motion against six Governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party Ministers and Deputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala who were voted in favor of the no confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe, to the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya in Parliament.

The motion was signed by UNP MP's.
Meanwhile 33 UNP MP's had made a written request from the Prime Minister Ranil Wkkramasinghe to remove six Sri Lanka Freedom Party Ministers John Seneviratne,S.B Dissanayake,D,Dayasiri Jayasekare,Chandima Weerakkody ,Susil Premjayantha and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa from.their posts due to they have voted in favor of the No Confidence Mmotion against P.M.