Sri Lanka Election: Who Will the Country's Tea-Pickers Vote For? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Sri Lanka Election: Who Will the Country's Tea-Pickers Vote For? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
The tea industry is the backbone of the Sri Lankan economy. But tea pickers in the island nation are the lowest paid and have horrible working conditions. So, this election, Sri Lanka's tea pickers are determined to use their powerful vote to choose a president this month who will change grim working conditions for good. Who will they vote for? Palki Sharma brings you a ground report.
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Your report is partly biased. The UNP, SLFP, SJB, CWC, and other parties that claim to represent tea pickers do not want these communities to escape poverty or gain education. If these people become independent thinkers, the political parties that exploit them can no longer bargain with the major parties. The NPP, however, isn't widely popular among these communities-only a small fraction supports them. I believe the Indian government prefers this status quo since it can manipulate the parties representing tea pickers for its own benefit. If the NPP comes to power, this entire dynamic will shift, and that's why India is concerned.
Dont you feel any shame while watching such hardship? What has India to do with Srilanka not providing basic minimum wage to largest exportera
Partly biased? No she is godi media. 100% biased. She just broadcast what her boss order
@@ashokpandey4210 Their lives will improve because the NPP will deliver on its promises without focusing solely on voter banks. Political, religious, majority, or minority-they consider us all Sri Lankans. The NPP’s commitment is to positive change for everyone, without dividing the country for political gain, but rather uniting us toward a better future.
Well said.
Palski please leave SriLanka alone
Palki is one of my respected journalists but I lost that seeing her biased reports in last couple of days. SL election law prohibit candidates promoting themselves in two previous days leading up to the election day. This period is known as the silent period. But Palki did an interview with Ranil on silent period which is not ethical.
Not only that. She is supporting and promoting Ranil. She is blind about other candidates AKD NPP. She never said anything about the popularity of NPP
Is this woman really think india is similar to switzerland. I have never seen any chinese or any foreign medias throwing mud at us.
😂😂
That's why we need to change those Two parties.
Palski please leave SriLanka alone
"The history has told these tea pickers, not hope for much!". This we cannot agree. The history reading cannot start from the end date and cover just a few days prior to that. History says that these tea estate workers were imported from Indian mainland, selectively from poverty ridden villages through the brokers of the British Raj, who were also speaking the same language, worshiped same idols and had same religious beliefs, but they were categorically slave traders. Those intermediaries, who held administrative jobs under British Planters selected the village folk and send them to Sri Lanka, the then "Ceylon" which was under the British. The conditions they transported were really bad and many died enroute, at the sea voyage and on land walk towards the highlands. Many also died of malnutrition and not adjusting to the climate after they arrived here, though the condition of their original land was quite similar to the conditions of Sri Lanka highlands. The reasons for such deaths could have been lack of medicines to treat the sickness they got after long and difficult travel.
Thereafter, they were set to clear the land and prepare for tea plantation, which involves a lot of manual labour. They sweat a lot in Sri Lanka soil and all of them were mixed with the soil without fulfilling their aspirations under the colonials. A fate that was similar to those indigenous highlanders , lands of whom were taken by force and houses and crops burned down and forcibly administered by the planters assisted by British armies. The middlemen became rich and the life style of the village folks were completely destroyed. So, what to say about these newly arrived tea plantation labourers.
There developed a set of management and administrative level officer cadre within the plantation sector. From the to most level to the ground level supervisors were taking maximum work from the laborers. These administrators did not treat them well and never differentiated men and women when allocating work. However, the tea pluckers were mostly women, but they had to do the other soil maneuvering, ground cleaning, planting and plant nursery maintenance as well.
The time passed, and Ceylon got independence and then converted to a republic and became Sri Lanka. A part of the tea estate work force, the people of subsequent generations were selectively given the Indian residence permits left Sri Lanka. In 1978, the then elected government gave the estate workers, the right to vote and so they became a community that will be recognized by the political authorities. Even then the powers of the tea estate management were not treating them right. fortunately, for centuries the indigenous people never illtreated these estate workers but maintained very cordial relationship and they were living without fear within the old generations of Sri Lanka. Some of the estate workers shifted from tea estate work ( only a small percentage) came to cities selling their labour and and only a handful became traders, teachers and so on. Later they were getting more facilities for education came to higher education and even to Universities and so on. But the majority remained within the estate work and were almost slaves (sorry to say that). They were indulged in heavy drinking of alcohol and used up whole of their salary for liquor and they were to destroy themselves and their voting rights were used by a few of their rulers to comfort themselves and only on the election day, they became important people. Their party organizers were not any other but their own people. They did it for money and power. The common labourer was kept at his level as if he was working the tea estates , a hundred years ago. Whom should we blame?, only to those who connived with the estate management.
Estate management changed hands from British to government owned companies and then back to private companies, but the estate worker remained the same and they were looking voluntarily serving in the estates, a self imprisonment, you could say. The main reason was the politicians who lead them and who robbed their votes to make kings, while keeping their voter base almost as slaves.The separatist war began and the friendship between the majority Sri Lankan community was never broken with the estate workers. Rarely they became terrorists and , Yes! they were not well taken by the other fighting groups who declared that they were fighting for the just cause of their race. The estate workers were a race within a race, but well accepted and integrated in to the society as human beings, though their plight was not different from their parallel poor villagers who were also unable to come out of the ;poverty created by the colonials.
So, Our friends must look at the mirror and see the Neelagiri area of estates and then come and see here. We are improving the villagers life and estate workers life , as a Nation but you know we have failed in both. But the fact remains, that the estate workers of Indian origin is amalgamated heavily within our society, and gained a lot of respect and are gaining recognition as equals in society and in law courts and in most of the places. So, need not worry on their lives and their aspirations, as they will be well off, once they break away from the self imposed mental restrictions( inculcated by their intermediary controllers, who had used their labour and their vote for their success) and join the mainstream politics.
Any attempt to disrupt this natural process by creating an inferiority complex within their new generation and taking them as baits to control Sri Lankan politics will be really useless. When we see the repercussions had on the unnecessary involvement of Indian Central Government to create uncertainty through the youth of the North ( to satisfy the Southern India's Politician's election wish) which really wasted three decades of our life time, such effort will be futile. Let these people get in to Sri Lankan society as equals through (a slow though) a steady process and refrain from inculcating bad ideas on them, which will not be good for Sri Lanka and finally for India (a threat one would not visualize). "Enough is Enough" is a slogan used by the West to instigate violence and to get one Nation against the other, one community against the other and which could easily used within a family to engage with one against the other member and therefor a highly dangerous stance and an obvious trap to eternal sufferance of both sides involved in it.
Thanks!
This should be done before election why wait until now to make a change in their lives poor people
With soo many hopes for a better tomorrow 😢
AKD will make a change in their lives for sure
Yeah OUR HOPE IS AKD....
It is highly appreciated that you give voice to these voiceless citizens….
No to 13th amendment.
No to a bridge across Sri Lanka with India.
No to Indian rupee in Sri Lanka.
As if anyone wants to link with Srilanka
Its your own government who talked about such plans not India nd India dont need Srilanka,You are Chinese masket
But In INDIA also there are more than
100 Millions of Tea Pickers what about them ? 🧐 They are treated like Garage slaves in India. but in Sri lanka less than 1 Millions of Tea pickers lives way better life than back in India 😅
palki should do a report on superpower india's farmers. I heard the indian farmers are struggling too..
She comes here to interfere in srilankans matters in order to gain benefits in long term.
what ever happens more than 76 year they keep voting same corrupted please 😂😂😂😂
What about 100 Millions of Tea Pickers in India
Palki and the Indian politicians are worrying about Sri Lanka all the time......😂😂😂😂😅
Is this India's Presidential Election ?
Heart breaking to know. May they find a way to change and improve their lives.
Palski please leave SriLanka alone
Why not India help the pluckers for they have come from India a long time back for this job.they live in better environment with toiletries than the Indian women shit on the railways.
This Palki Sharma is very bias reporter... she even when im WION.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 you'r supports to Ranil, its pretty much obvious 😂😂
Akd ,the clear winner in sri lanka
Tea pickers' life is the same everywhere be it darjeeling or sl
Best journalism from Palki as always.
Its clear to the whole nation that Adani pumps money to Palki to support anyone come to power except AKD because with NPP government never allow Adani group to engage any sort of currpted deals like wind power electricity .
Indias percapita is $2000, in Sri lanka it is $4000. Before cry ing for sri lankan , it is worth to make toilet facility for your people. Because the smell cant bear in streats.
❤beautiful country i like sri Lanka and there's peoples and nature
There is an voice disturbance while u r voice is playing,kindly resolve it ..thank you
If life is hard enough for Sri Lankans with a GDP per capita of $4,000, can you imagine what it's like for Indians with just $2,000? 😢😢😢😢
Full-time Chinmpaki. 😅
India GDP per capita is 2800 nd Srilanka is at 3,200 nd their remarkable difference in India and Srilanka cost of living
Nd thats the Reason why Srilanka has not even 7 billion dollars forex reserve,While India Has 700 billion
@@ashokpandey4210 no currently sri lankan gdp per capita 4300usd
Yesterday data😅😅
@@ashokpandey4210 Use 5% of $700 B GDP to build some toilets to poop, guys defecate on road sides and rail tracks ha ha ha
@@nipunmihiranga4812 thatswhy srilanka bankrupted 😂
Its NPP this time.. the people will feel it .. the crooked are leaving the country as we speak 😊
palki your presentation is not based on correct facts. You always present facts for one party only and you present your news for the purpose of popularity and with the purpose of giving commercial value but not presenting its true karma. Brought to Sri Lanka from India during the British Empire. After independence in 1948, the politicians who advocated for the labor rights of these people represent the popular community, and every time decisions were taken remembering the influence of India, especially From the likes of Thundaman Chandrasekaran to the present, the politician representing the hill people always takes decisions with the knowledge and intervention of the South Indian politician. They enjoy ministerial positions and privileges of every existing government and instead of standing up for the labor rights and basic rights of these people, they spend time for the welfare of their families, so it is baseless to present this news without presenting the facts that have come to Sri Lanka from your words. You should be aware and understand how much the Indian political influence affects the economy of Sri Lanka and the people's lives.
They were brought from India under British rules. Still they are working under British. First, they need to be freed from British rules. Then, SL can solve their problems. Otherwise They have to rectify it with their owners from British.
Sri Lanka's tea plantations are drying the underground water sources and other water resources in the hill country. This is an issue of colonial damage. The transpiration is very low due to extensive deforestation. It is an ecological disaster the world has been made to forget because of mismanaged ignorance
Hwo told you AKD is marxist.this is wrong information.
Now I know the India is a Swisterland of Asia.
One of the issue made by india thanks so much 😊
Palski please leave SriLanka alone
This presentation is good. Keep presentation rotating in different style
Akd will fix not rinil who support ranin , mrs sharma tell adani to come with clean open tender , next government in sri lanka will be not bad because they repeat all sri lankans as sri lankan , not as indian hindu muslim seak or eny other , sinhala , tamil , muslim , bugers all are sri lankans...
Isnt that you people said during Rajapaksa?
Palki supported ranil wickeamasinghe by giving him broadcasting time this last 48 hours, even after the election commission said not to do such things in this last 48 hours. Why?? Don’t be bias. We can clearly se who you are supporting.
Plus, You said in the video ranil wickramasinghe promised housing for these people, which he did for long time but did not deliver on his promises. He’s been this country’s PM for. 6 or more years. Those are just false promises. And tea planters know that too.
Ireland drinks the most tea per person britain and turkey tea drinkers are in decline
Coffee is winning the battle against the king of drinks for me tea
India need to this innocent people to control the sri lankan governments not to uplift their social life.
Thats why we are hoping AkD as a president. Past 76 years same two parties did nothing to them.
Earlier srilanka did barter exchange with one country who supply oil in exchange of tea from srilanka
රනිල් ❤️❤️❤️
Not. Only srilanka even in kenya people have started uprooting the tea
KTDA is the problem. .
We know this issue Palki, but probem is money and the geographical issues to bulid houses in that area.
Not only tea pickers whole country has been taken for ride by Sajith s farther who was president then Ranil Sajith mahinda all.
Anura is the only hope Nd he is brother to all of the people .
He is not going rule us.
He will Walk with all of us.
Love Anura.
Wion .
You are our closest neighbour.
Please report correct news to millions of Indians listening to you
Punjab farmers are on the roads for months 😂
They are khalistanies not famers.
Ranil wickramasinge will win
In economy crisis time mostly structured this people's
انا اختك اليمنيه واعتبرني اختك والله ماتكلمت الا من جوع ومن ضيق الحال انا وكامل اسرتي تشردنا من بيوتنا بَسَبَبَ الَحَرَبَ نَحَنَ فَيَ حَالَهَ لَايَعَلَمَ بَهَا الَا الَلَهَ حَسَبَنَا الَلَهَ وًّنَعَمَ الَوكيَلَ فَيَ مَنَ اوًّصَلَنَا الَى هَاذا الَحَالَ وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 20 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967713342392 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خير..÷~_÷÷~×~π^~π°~°
We the upcountry people wanted to be treated as human
But stop voting for arrack and food packet 😂😂😂
Tea coconut and Rubber can do big charge in Country what technology wise we would new business wise this 3 company most people most country needs if we can have a good Development one of the Big Income to our country
Stop being bias. Your preference will never win. Sri Lankan people don’t care about what Indians or Indian government thinks
Then why are you here?
@@ashokpandey4210, just to remind how godi media and Bollywood brainwashed Indian people
Palki lost the credibility being biased.
AKD❤❤❤
Half truth
Palski please leave SriLanka alone
Nothing is going to change for these colonial era Tamil immigrant descendant families...
Sinhalese hatred for Tamils is in their DNA and no matter which party comes to power, they will not do anything for them...
Just like Jews, Tamils need to create a country for them to answer all the persecution suffered all over the world including their own homeland Tamilnadu which falls under the current India...
Did sinhalese brought them to lanka..? Did sinhalese themselves gave up their land for these indian tamils..? TN doesn't care about these low caste people for sure only few people care.. sinhalese are far better for them.. the only reason their life is like this is the low income they make.. sinhalese can not help that the government should do something about it.. it iss great false news to say that sinhalese are racist towards these indian tamils just because they make low income... millions of tourists visit lanka every years but almost no one have reported about seeing racism..? Its only the tamils make such bullshit everywhere..
Producing babies like animals is tamils problem
ADANI Stole Sri Lanka
LOL hey Palki Sharma Please mind your own business darling.. Your reports and you channel cant change the Votes .. LOL
❤ should I be fuunnyy wrong place time because I am hungry too from Brazil being hungry don't remember day I have not being hungry
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You are badly misguided. Isn't it better to mind your country people's broblems. We know cast problems dowry problems etc among your society.
Why are you worry about Sri Lanka so much, how about talk about deodorant for Indians.
Don't be lie lady..please
Y india care for about their countries poor peoples...😅😅😅😅
If ranil wins the investors for tea and other sectors will come to Sri Lanka and economy will grow rapidly. BUT if anura (AKD) wins trust me, economy will falls down by starting with the "Colombo stock market".
Son. Please go outside and have a life. U have a serious problem. (The channels u subsribed, holy shit)😂
False news....
Pls go away
Don,'t tell lies