The Public Would Have Assailed Protesting Teachers: Keheliya

Expresses his gratitude for calling off street protests. He said he would not change his stance in calling certain striking teachers and principals as a miserable lot. In the wake of fast spreading pandemic. All successive governments since 1994 failed to find a solution to service and salary issues of the teachers and principals. The government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is committed to resolve the salary anomalies and service related shortcomings of teachers and principals

- Sandun A Jayasekera

If the teacher Trade Unions did not call off the trade union action at public places, there was a possibility that the public would have attacked them, Cabinet Spokesman and Mass Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.

He said so while expressing his gratitude and appreciation to some of the teacher trade unions for suspending street protests on account of the fast spreading Covid- 19 pandemic

Minister Rambukwella, responding to a journalist at yesterday’s post Cabinet news briefing said he would not change his stance in calling certain striking teachers and principals as a miserable lot.