Deputy Minister of State Enterprises, Chathuranga Abeysinghe, has accused think tank Advocata Institute of publishing what he claimed was a politically motivated and misleading analysis on the performance of Sri Lanka’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Responding to Advocata’s recent claims that state enterprises continue to make losses, Abeysinghe alleged that the organisation’s data was fed by the political talk show “Bai Thaksalawa” rather than verified economic sources. “The so-called analysis claiming losses for 2025 is based on data fragments taken from biased political commentary, not real figures,” the Deputy Minister said in a Facebook post. He argued that the “era of…
Deputy Minister clashes with Advocata over SOE losses
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