JVP wants Govt look into problems of fasting Eastern U’grads...!!! They should not be ignored or neglected on racial grounds...!!!

JVP wants Govt look into problems of fasting Eastern U’grads by Saman Indrajith

JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (23) demanded that the government immediately mediate to sort out the problems of Eastern Province Graduates engaged in a continuous a hunger strike in the Batticaloa town.

Dissanayake said, in a special statement, that these unemployed graduates have been engaged in this agitation for over 22 days but the government had not paid any attention to address their grievances.

"These graduates who number around 1,700 are not demanding a separate country but a job which suits their qualification.

This problem of not giving them suitable employment opportunities has been there for nearly three years. Finally, they have commenced this hunger strike after a number of hartals, satyagraha and demonstrations. Now they have fasted for 22 days opposite the private bus stand in Batticaloa town".

MP Dissanayake said that the government should take this problem of absorbing the unemployed seriously without pushing them further towards racial segregation.

"They, like graduates in other parts of this country, deserve employment. They should not be ignored or neglected on racial grounds.

The government must address their problem immediately before it develops into a national crisis," Dissanayake said.

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