Mangala to lodge complaint against new currency note 2009-11-19 14:49:37
SLFP (M) leader Mangala Samaraweera will lodge a complaint with the Election’s Commissioner regarding the Rs1000 currency note that was released by the Central Bank this week bearing the picture of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
“The release of this note close to an election tantamounts to election campaigning via a currency note and we will protest against it,” Mr. Samaraweera told reporters this morning.
He added that pictures of living leaders have never been used on currency notes in the country before and said it is “undemocratic.”‘.
(DW/CK)
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From : GH-wattala
Don't you remember former President Premadasa put his face image on one rupee coin.
From : Dr K
King George VI (1941-1951) and Queen Elizabeth II (1952-1954) were living Heads of State when they appeared on Ceylon Currency Notes.
From : BMunasinghe
Joker talk about another joke.
From : Nimalgee
When those who have no place or purpose, they try to hook on to some useless, insignificant issue to create problems and bring about controversies among the peace loving people of this country, who are enjoying the benifit of what has been achieved by this Government, after the people had been taken for a 30 year ride by so many government leaders in the past.
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