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JVP MPs live like frogs in a well - Minister by CHAMIKARA WEERASINGHE Minister of Lands Rajitha Senaratne who returned from a recent tour of China said he wished he had taken the sixteen JVP parliamentarians with him, to make them aware how the so-called socialist country had changed over the years. The minister was speaking at a ceremony held at the Land Reform Commission Headquarters in Colombo on Thursday in connection with the presentation of Ratnabhumi land deeds to 197 people in the Hambantota district. Senaratne said that the JVP was trying to establish a Marxist system that was not even in existence in the communist countries that had introduced it. "The JVP left-wing MPs live like frogs in a well not knowing the world outside it," he said. Referring to the current labour situation in communist countries, the minister said that in China there was no such thing called monthly pay or daily pay for factory workers. "When I asked about wages from the management of a factory in China, they said that payment was made according to each employee's output and performance and no payment was made to those who did not turn up for work, and those who failed to reach the expected production level of the company were terminated without notice," he said. The minister said that there were no trade unions in China and that employees were not permitted to form such unions. "This is the situation in the Socialist Republic of China, the country of Mao Tse-tung, that taught us about labour rights and trade union concepts," he said. "However, China has developed so much today that its cities are far better than those in New York, with the Foreign Ministry as big as all the Sri Lankan ministries put together. Their economic growth is 9.3 per cent, the highest in the world. China has come a long way with the new privatisation policies," he pointed out. |
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