Sri Lanka’s State Intelligence Service (SIS) has warned the government not to grant a salary hike to protesting non-academic staff at the island nation’s state universities as it is a part of a greater plot, State Higher Education Minister Suren Raghavan said, according to Economy Next.
When asked if the protest has any political motive, the Minister has said it was part of a greater plot though the demand was justifiable.
“That is what the State Intelligence Services told us,” he has told EconomyNext responding to a question at a media briefing in Colombo on Friday (05).
The state Minister has admitted that the Government decided not to grant a wage hike on the advice of the SIS, which controversial Major General Suresh Sally heads.
“We were above to grant this. They (SIS) said no and this is only the beginning. There were several other state institutions waiting (to protest for wage hikes). So we can’t do this,” he has said.
