Assuming office as Finance Minister while being a relative newcomer to politics

“Historically the rise and the growth of the Parliamentary system can be traced to Finance” — Dr. N.M. Perera On April 6, 2004 I was appointed the Minister of Finance of the UPFA government by President CBK. It was a singular honour for a MP who had not spent many years in Parliament unlike the […]


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