UNP condemns fuel price hike

16 Dec, 2012

The opposition UNP has condemned the decision to?increase?the price of petrol octane 90 with effect from yesterday.

UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake, in a statement, said that the price increase will?affect even the ordinary man who uses a motorcycle and three-wheeler.

Both the CPC and LIOC announced yesterday that the price of petrol octane 90 had been increased by Rs. 10 per litre.

Attanayake says that on average a family which uses 2 litres of petrol a day is now compelled to increase its spending on petrol by Rs. 600 which is equal to 10 kilos of rice or 5 kilos of sugar.

He also said that although the government had promised a?Rs. 1500?salary?allowance for?government servants in the 2013 budget the government was seemingly attempting to recover that money through a fuel price increase.

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