Special site for protests
The authorities have set aside a plot of bare land opposite the Secretariat in Galle Face to accommodate protesters. This is a very good decision. There are various protesters, specially the university students who arrange protests marches and block important roads. Sometimes these protests are arranged by political parties and sometimes by various powerful trade unions. The general public is harassed by these protesters.
Many of these protest marches head towards the Presidential Secretariat. These protest marches flow through Colombo disrupting traffic.
Student demonstrators staged a sit-down protest on Galle Face Road on February 5 Wednesday, causing traffic jams. They ignored the request to use the special site allocated for protesters.
We request the authorities to take this seriously and punish these people arranging protest marches illegally.