The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna
Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna raised a Point of Order referring to remarks by Deputy Minister Jayasinghe in a campaign-related media briefing for the Co-operative Employees’ Union elections. She argued that his statement about professional evaluation, competitive examination, and lack of qualified persons in two categories contradicted earlier assurances on resolving teachers’ and principals’ salary anomalies. She questioned whether the Government was now implying that teachers and principals lacked the qualifications needed to justify correcting those anomalies.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a Point of Order.
¶ 02 Hon. Presiding Member, previously the Hon. Deputy Minister Jayasinghe asked me for a video. At a campaign event for the Co-operative Employees’ Union elections, at a media briefing, he said, in minute 4 of a six-minute video: “To take two out of three, one must go through a rigorous professional evaluation and competitive examination.” That implies a filter — and then he says that among the three categories, two do not have qualified persons to rectify salary anomalies. If there are no qualified persons, there is no anomaly. If qualification is required, then you should have told protestors to obtain qualifications instead of promising otherwise at Galle Face. I hand this over to the teachers and principals of this country: did you lack qualifications to remove the so-called salary anomaly?
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Cite as: The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 March 2025. No. 1743651953052186. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29410