Ensure landslide win for UPFA - CPC
Minister
by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya
The Central Provincial Council Education Minister V. Radhakrishnan
has appealed to the plantation community to ensure the landslide victory
of the United People’s Freedom Alliance at the forthcoming Parliamentary
Polls.
Laying the foundation stone for a school building at Leylon at
Bogawanthalawa, at a cost of six million rupees last week, the Central
Provincial Council Education Minister V. Radhakrishnan said that such
educational developments were taking place in the hillcountry under the
Mahinda Chinthana concept, and the estate children should make the best
use of them for their uplift and social standards rather than
complaining that the State is not doing anything for them.
He said both the Sri Lankan Government with the assistance of the
Indian Government were doing its best for the educational developments
of the estate sector children, and it was the duty of the parents to
encourage their children to make use of these opportunities.
Radhakrishnan said it was the S.L.F.P. government in the past, which
had provided the plantation workers the E.P.F. grants, paid statutory
holidays for estate workers, together with the granting of their
citizenship under the Sirima Shastri pact, and all other issues such as
the maternity benefits and other allied matters. While under this
Government the estate workers increased wages, housing, better health
and sanitary conditions, and there has been a remarkable change in the
plantation workers social and economical developments.
He said that the plantation workers should be grateful to such a
government, and ensure that the U.P.F.A. candidates contesting in the
forthcoming elections are supported along with his own candidature and
added that he has always worked for the sustenance of the plantation
workers in all matters, and that he will continue to serve them once he
entered Parliament.
The meeting was addressed by several others including the Principal
of the school Loganathan, S. Ramasamy, and Ms. N. Radhakrishnan. |
