(Lanka-e-News -12.Aug.2015, 11.30PM) This is the period of elections in the country and only funeral , religious and cultural processions are allowed. Hence , under no circumstances there can be protest processions since they constitute election law violations. This prohibition attaches not only to political parties but even those people’s organizations affiliated to them .
However the Inter University Students Federation (Anthare) went on a protest procession yesterday in Colombo. This student federation is known to all as one that is not representative of an ordinary official University student organization , for it is a body that is servile and subservient to the Frontline party (Peratugami party) , and a tool in their hands.
Frontline party is a political party that is contesting the upcoming elections. Its leader, Kumar Gunarathnam was in hiding after violating Immigration and emigration laws .If a student body that is a tool of such a political party is allowed to go in procession, then other organizations affiliated to other political parties must also be able to go in processions during the election period.
It is one set of laws that applies to every citizen in this country including students over 18 years of age sitting the GCE adv. Level .Hence ’Anthare’ group has transgressed the election laws.
How is the election monitoring organizations that keep count of election violations during the election period going to view this ?
The group that is identified as Anthare went in procession yesterday not in regard to their justifiable demands, if any , but instead to demand that the rights of the other students following higher education be violated.That is , their primary demand was : ban private Universities. Their slogan was ‘Can’t pay . Will not pay. ’
These protestors who are following government University education free are not paying any money, and they are paid by the government. In such circumstances these students protesting ‘they will not pay’ is most ridiculous and ludicrous. Who is saying ‘cannot pay’ and to whom?
Learning is part of an individual’s liberty. Disseminating knowledge and sharing it are also parts of an individual’s liberty . Hence to ask the government to transfer that ‘right to liberty’ is an outmoded doctrine and has no sense or meaning.
Knowledge has spread and is spreading , not because of any group of officers of a government. Where such efforts were made education had stalled, and those countries had only nosedived and crashed.
In Sri Lanka, private schools sector had been there all along historically. To these students there is no room in State universities . Are those students therefore to go to the homes of the leaders of the Frontline party , and secure their education? Or else , are they to go to the home of Najith Indika the Anthare students leader ? In the circumstances , a private University system must exist .
Hence what must be done is not just opposing the private University system , rather like in advanced countries , just as private schools exist , have private Universities under the purview of independent commission. In advanced countries of the world , just because money is there , a company or a wealthy person cannot start a University.
Above all ,let us not forget that in the world the most renowned higher education seats of learning are all private Institutions . They have a solid history of existence extending over centuries. Instead of developing the private higher education modeled on those lines, while enjoying the free education provided by the government and trying to sabotage the higher education of other students by demanding to ban the rights of those students is most deplorable and reprehensible.
And if that sabotage activities are carried out violating the country’s laws , certainly those responsible for that they must be meted out the puishment they richly merit.
It is imperative that children with emotion and selflessness be spawned out of these students who are inexperienced, not knowing the ways of the world , and who have still not properly finished their higher education.
Self centered opportunistic bald headed scoundrels with perverted primitive ideas suffering from senile decay should not be allowed to destroy the precious lives and future of the younger generation.
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strange gunaratnam is in hiding....why cant the govt locate him &deport; him.....strange again.....may be hiding under gotha's bidding!.....another anti UNP front demo!....as orchestrated by the UPFA clique(mr&crooks;)......why does not MS take note of these attempts of sabotage!...STRANGE again!....EC is also silent....STRANGE AGAIN!
-- by reggie nathaniel on 2015-08-13
