Sri Lanka, April 29 -- Chief Government Whip and Minister Prasanna Ranatunga emphasised in Parliament that funds have been allocated for development activities in a transparent manner to all MPs on Friday (26). He pointed out that several statements that the Government has not provided decentralised funds to the Opposition MPs this year are baseless.

He also said that decentralised funds will not be allocated to Parliamentarians either Opposition or Government this year and funds will be released to District Secretaries based on the available number of seats in each district.

He said this while replying to a matter raised by SJB MP Ashok Abeysinghe in Parliament on Friday.

He stated that it was the demand of the people to implement dev...