Estate sector workers will become tea estate holders under SJB: Sajith

He added that this transformation is required to improve the living conditions of the estate sector workers.

Premadasa was speaking at an election meeting in Hatton.

He reminded that it was his father late R Premadasa who granted citizenship to  more than 1.2 million estate workers.

“That endeavour will be complete when each and every estate family gets the ownership of a land and a house,” he added. He said that he would establish a Development Task Force under the purview of the Prime Minister to alleviate poverty among the plantation community.