The Hon. Ramalingam Chandrasekar
Ramalingam Chandrasekar said education in the North has improved, but parents are still sending children to Colombo or abroad because of threats from drug mafias, citing more than 100 children leaving in the past two months. He argued that while some elements within the military and police may be involved in drugs, it is inaccurate to blame the institutions as a whole, and alleged that some Tamil politicians are linked to drug networks, including recent arrests.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I said, education in the North is advancing compared to the past. But instead of children studying, parents are compelled to send them to Colombo. In the last two months, over a hundred children have been forced to go abroad due to drug mafias. Those in Jaffna must understand ground realities. If you cannot, I cannot help it with “adequate evidence” for everything. You also said the military and police are behind drugs. The truth is that there are elements within both, but not all. Importantly, Tamil politicians working with the mafias are intertwined with them; recently, such politicians have even been arrested.
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Cite as: The Hon. Ramalingam Chandrasekar. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 12 November 2025. No. 23378. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17314