President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has invited Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa to attend a discussion on the government's organic fertilizer program.

According to government sources, the President had telephoned the Leader of the Opposition yesterday (06).

During a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat with a group of senior government officials yesterday, the President had telephoned the Leader of the Opposition and asked him whether he was opposed to the government's program regarding organic fertilizer.

In response, the Leader of the Opposition has stated that the programme has come under severe criticism from the Ministry of Agriculture and its officials.

Afterwards, the President had spoken to top officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and inquired whether there was resistance to the programme within the Ministry. The officials have stated that there is no such opposition.

However, the President has invited the Leader of the Opposition to discuss the matter at length