UNP MP, 'a two birthday boy'
Another controversy has erupted in the UNP with
several seniors alleging that a party MP in the Colombo district who
boasts to be the chief financier of the UNP has declared personal
information to the state based on forged documents which had made
him younger by five years, top UNP sources revealed to the 'Sunday
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LTTE taxation burden on masses
The LTTE's extortion and illegal tax has
resulted in the cost-of-living sky rocketing in the Jaffna
peninsula. The ceasefire agreement does not have a clause forbidding
the tax collection by the LTTE. Added to the high transport and
payments for loading and unloading at entry-exit points on both
sides of the boarder, the cost-of-living in the Jaffna peninsula is
25 per cent higher than the rest of the country.
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