Srilanka, March 2 -- Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Prof. Anil Jayantha told Parliament yesterday that there is no fuel shortage in the country.

Minister Prof. Jayantha accused politically motivated elements of deliberately attempting to create public panic by highlighting queues at petrol stations and falsely attributing them to an impending fuel scarcity.

Responding to concerns raised by MPs Ravi Karunanayake and Gayantha Karunathilaka, the Minister said the panic stemmed from confusion over a three percent commission and a related price cap, which had been in place since 2019 but had neither been implemented nor communicated to fuel distributors-possibly because fuel prices had not increased at the t...