Did you appoint me to look after the prices of rice and dhal?- President raised a strange question!

The president Gottabaya Rajapakse raised an unfamiliar question whether people had appointed him to look after the prices of rice and dhal in the country and he not needed for the job.

Today when he went to visit the agricultural farm using organic fertilizer, he had expressed as above.

He added more that our former governments too tried to do this but this is a difficult task. They had known this as difficult one.

I have come to power to bring about a change in agricultural field and since I came to power I had been supplying fertilizer free. Same like that, we increased the guaranteed price of paddy.