PM Wickremesinghe urges to unite and prevent doing away with free-education system

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe called on the people to unite against the doing away with the free-education system which he claimed was being proposed in the manifesto of SLPP Presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

The Prime Minister made these remarks during a United National Front election campaign rally at Bandarawela yesterday (Nov 6).

Mr Wickremesinghe said the manifesto of Mr Rajapaksa claims that revolutionary Educational Institutes which caused a transformation in the educational sector in Sri Lanka would be abolished and an alternative system would be implemented.

"Through this, they are trying to begin a programme to completely do away with free education in this country," said Prime Minister Wickremesinghe.

Further, the  Prime Minister also said that apart from abolishing the educational institutes, Mr. Rajapaksa’s manifesto also states that the system of providing free school uniforms too would be stopped.

While addressing the rally the premier further said that in order to safeguard free-education and to develop it further NDF candidate Sajith Premadasa should be elected as President on  November 16. 

Mr Wickremesingh said the free education system opened the way for the student generation in this country to move forward through their skills and talents irrespective of their status of being rich or poor status since 1947.