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by Uditha Kumarasinghe

The UNP which vehemently denied that it signed an MoU with a Tamil Party Alliance has now revealed the secret pact with the release of its party manifesto, JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa said yesterday.

Addressing a news conference at Hotel Nippon, Colombo he said the UNP manifesto evaded the question of the preservation of the unitary status of the country in a very shrewd manner.

The Mahanayaka theras and community groups had questioned the UNP on their stand as to the unitary status and the UNP had replied in the negative.

The UNP manifesto has not made any comments as to whether the LTTE ban would be lifted or not. In addition, it mentioned no provisions or conditions of how the UNP would conduct talks with the LTTE, Weerawansa said.

The UNP manifesto could therefore be described as a hide and seek manifesto to mislead the people, he said.

He said the UNP had pledged an Interim Administration and the handing over of the North-East to the LTTE for a brief period. But there was no time frame on how brief this period would be.

"We have no dispute if UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe gave one of the rooms of his house to S.B.Dissanayake or Parabakaran. But can we divide our Motherland and hand it over to a separate administration?" he asked.

Weerawansa said that under this interim administration, the governance of the North-East would be vested in the LTTE and the Tamil Alliance which are no more than puppets of the LTTE.

This would naturally lead to the lifting of the LTTE ban and injecting Oxygen to the LTTE under the guise of refraining from use of it's brand name which is recognised as the fifth ruthless terrorist organisation in the world. This is an imminent danger faced by the country today, Weerawansa said.

He said the North and East were joined temporarily through the 1987 Indo Lanka Agreement. He questioned how Ranil Wickremesinghe introduced an interim administration into these two provinces which are not combined legally.

Commenting on the JVP election campaign, he said the PA has already accepted defeat. Therefore, the main competition is now between the JVP and the UNP.

At present thuggery is being used by the Government and the UNP in full force to sabotage the JVP election campaign. Arrangements to launch more thuggery against the JVP exist within the final two weeks of the campaign, he warned. 

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