Discussions on to Extend Government’s Salary Increments to Service Personnel Too

“Final arrangements are being prepared by the government to add the salary increment (Rs 10000/=) given to the state employees be also added to the salary of tri-service personnel in consultation with other relevant authorities. In fact, a round of discussion to this effect was held by me last night (10) with Hon Prime Minister who has a broader understanding about these anomalies in servicemen’s salaries” remarked Hon Ruwan Wijewardena, State Minister of Defence during the ‘Virusara’ Privilege Card ceremony at Kuruwita on Friday (11).  

“Our government does not expect servicemen be used for political gains or other political activities and we have not been influenced by any foreign power to compromise on national security concerns, nor are we ready to pull out our troops that have been deployed for security purposes. The government would not do anything that would damage the reputation of armed forces and even the foreign observers are abided by respective law enforcement in the country” said the State Minister of Defence, Hon Ruwan Wijewardena.

“Law of the country is equal to all in society irrespective of their status. It is the same for politicians too. President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe formed this national government in order to resolve burning issues of the country for the last 30 - 40 years and the public opinion is the most importance element for us. Although, our opponents are spreading various misleading and untrue allegations regarding War Heroes and the national security, our government would not in any way allow anyone to insult or degrade them. I also would like to tell you that the government will wipe out underworld gangs who are trying to disturb the hard-earned peace. All of us should be law-abiding citizens and we all are under the law. The government will not allow take the country back at dark era again and nothing has happened that threaten our national security arrangements”, the Minister added.

Eng Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Secretary Defence told the gathering at Kuruwita that the Ranaviru Sava Authority should in the future expand the ‘Virusara’ Privilege Card project to cover all War Heroes who actively contributed to the war against terrorists in the past few years.