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Farmers on the streets – not in their fields; teachers on the streets – not in their classrooms
By our Parliamentary Lobby Correspondent
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• Not only Agriculture Minister, but President also coming under attack from farmers demanding chemical fertiliser
• Teachers decide to report to work, while vowing to continue their protests until the salary anomaly issue is addressed

Last year, soon after Sri Lanka emerged from successfully containing its first wave of COVID-19 with minimal loss of life, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa publicly complained that he was not getting enough credit over the way his administration handled the pandemic within the country.
“They are sending me articles on how they did it (contained COVID) in Singapore,