President Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the real national wealth of the country is the youth and queried whether we could be satisfied with the work we have done so far in order to create educational, social and economic opportunities for the youth.
If we have done a proper role to protect that youth, why are they queuing up to leave the country?
For 75 years after independence, we have been speaking about protecting national resources. They are campaigning for the preservation of national resources. And also fighting. But have we really protected our real national wealth? Has a future been created for real national resources? He asked
The full text of President Wickremesinghe’s Budget speech is appended