Govt. employees should not vote for two main camps -JVP

The previous governments for the last 71 years had done nothing for the government employees. They had only weakened and deprived of their rights

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva yesterday requested government servants not to vote for the candidates of the two main camps as they had done nothing for the well-being of the government sector employees for the last 71 years.

He told a news conference that the candidates of the two main camps had no moral right to request for postal votes and said they had only acted to weaken the government sector.

“The previous governments for the last 71 years had done nothing for the government employees. They had only weakened and deprived of their rights. There is nothing that the governments had granted the government employees. All what they have achieved have been hardly earned through leftist struggles,” he said.

Mr Silva said the government abolished the pension scheme of the government employees in 2016 and added that no action had been taken to resolve the issue of salary anomalies of the government sector employees. “It is National Peoples’ Power (NPP) Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake who has fought for the rights of government employees in parliament,” he said.

Mr Silva said the government employees should not cast their postal vote for the two candidates of the main camps and approve of their actions in the last 71 years.