Sri Lanka, July 15 -- Industrial Exports, Investment Promotion, Tourism and Aviation Minister Prasanna Ranathunga yesterday said that Opposition today gets a perverse pleasure from detecting more COVID-19 patients in the country.

"The Opposition anyhow knows that it will be defeated at the forthcoming General election. Therefore, they want to get the election postponed," he added.

The Minister was addressing a political meeting in Biyagama. He said that the former Yahapalana" government was the most unsuccessful in Sri Lanka's history. The very people who destroyed the country pushing its people towards the suffering are now saying the government is unsuccessful," he added.

"It is true that the spreading of COVID 19 pandemic in the cou...