Colombo Mayor Vraîe Cally Balthazaar said the Colombo Municipal Council budget was to decide the future of Colombo city and not the council.
Vraîe Cally Balthazaar said after establishing control of the local council, the NPP administration cordially worked with all members, irrespective of their parties.
“You didn’t defeat the NPP’s budget, you defeated your conscience and the budget of conscience,” she told CMC councillors, after the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) lost the budget vote at the Colombo Municipal Council.
Vraîe Cally Balthazaar urged those who voted against the budget to think about what they had done to the expectations of the people of Colombo.
“Evil people doing bad things is normal. But good people banding together when something bad occurs is even scarier,” she added.
The Colombo Mayor made the comments after the ruling NPP lost the budget vote at the Colombo Municipal Council yesterday, after the joint opposition voted against it. 60 councillors voted against the budget while 57 supported it. (Newswire)