UNP as a democratic party should prescribe solutions to arrest rising prices of essential commodities, said Deputy Finance and State Revenue Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya. Minister Siyambalapitiya was speaking at the opening of Lankaputhra Development Bank's Kandy branch. Prices of imported food items have doubled and the oil prices have been increased by 400 per cent. Though we conducted protest campaigns such as Pada Yathra, Jana Ghosha, etc, where we were in the Opposition, we never indulged in such acts as damaging the Kitchen utensils.