The State Medical Students’ Parents’ Union met several leading Buddhist bhikkus and are scheduled to meet all religious leaders, but still President Maithripala Sirisena, the Higher Education Minister and some other politicians have not given an opportunity for the union to meet them, media spokesman of the union Wasantha Alwis said.
Addressing the media in Colombo on Monday, he said that the union informed Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera and Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thera about the danger posed to free education in the country by the proposed Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Act (drafted in 2017).
This Act violates the human rights of Sri Lankans and militarises free education. Perhaps the President was not aware of this conspiracy to bring in this new Act. Popular and prominent conspirators who backed SAITM are behind this issue. The conspirators are trying to kill two birds with one stone by bringing in this Act. They are tarnishing the image of the Armed Forces of this country, while privatising free education, he said.
“We are also against the private medical faculty to be opened at the Batticaloa campus. We do not need Muslim or Buddhist private medical faculties in Sri Lanka. Therefore, we will fight against all of these. We are against the Cabinet paper to recruit medical students into the medical faculty on the basis of three simple passes,” he added.
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