Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has accused the Government of playing with the futures of young students, following its sudden reversal on the KDU MBBS admissions policy.
“They played games with the future of children and only backtracked under legal and public pressure,” Premadasa said, reacting to the Government’s decision to reopen applications for local fee-paying students at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
He said hundreds of qualified students were left in limbo by the earlier policy change, scrambling for foreign placements, filing fundamental rights petitions, and spending money their families could barely spare. “Parents spent weeks in anxiety, not knowing whether to pay overseas deposits or wait for a government that kept shifting the goalposts,” he added.
Premadasa also criticised the Government for wasting parliamentary time defending a policy that was ultimately abandoned. “Ministers spent hours defending the indefensible, only to reverse it weeks later.”
He warned that such ad hoc policymaking erodes public trust. “Education policy isn’t something to write on the back of an envelope and discard the next day. These decisions shape lives and careers. If the Government doesn’t know what it’s doing, at least don’t export that chaos to the people.” (Newswire)
