Ahead of a forum scheduled for tomorrow to facilitate talks between the government and stakeholders affected by the tax on education tuition, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday met with some of the protestors who had gathered in front of his office for their routine picketing exercise.
The group of six, made up of five parents and Director of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan School, Swami Aksharananda, was engaged with the minister for close to an hour, taking the meeting time past the end of the protest, which promptly ended at 1 pm.
While the parents appeared hopeful following the interaction, citing the kindness and humility with which Roopnaraine greeted them, Aksharananda opined that, all things considered, the interaction may have been merely to