Former Health Minister Tissa Attanayake said that the United National Party has given all candidates Rs. 2.5 million each for election propaganda work.

 

Speaking at a press conference at SLFP headquarters yesterday, he asked as to how the UNP could spend so much money for election campaigning barely six months after coming to power. He claimed that the UNP was financially in dire straits when he was still in the party.

 

'One is compelled to think that the Central Bank Treasury bond scam actually happened' he also said, observing that the UNP is throwing out heaps of money for the campaign.

 

However, he added that the UNP is aware of defeat in the polls. The 'national government' concept is put forward only because of the realization of that reality, he said.