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JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa addressing a JVP election rally at Maharagama last night vowed that Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna will fight to their last breath in their efforts to defeat all efforts of the UNP led UNF to hand over Eelam to LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran.

Weerawansa said the so-called Tamil National Alliance is acting as the cat's paw of Prabakaran and the LTTE leader in turn is using his power through the S. B. Dissanayake, Arumugam Thondaman and Rauf Hakeem coalition to elect UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe as the PM as that will pave the way for the LTTE to take the country to ransom.

JVP Colombo District leader described the UNP as the biggest threat to the country's territorial integrity and observed that a vote cast in favour of the United National Front will greatly jeopardise the unitary State of Sri Lanka.

"The JVP is the only political party that can challenge the Ranil Wickremasinghe led so-called UNF.

Today the PA is fighting a loosing battle and the people have no other alternative but to keep faith with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.

We are proud to say that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is yet shining as a bright beacon of light in the face of the struggling political forces of the PA and the UNP.

The JVP would like to emphasise here that if Ranil and company assumes power the country will be in a parlous state and there will be no turning back" pointed out Weerawansa.

The JVP Propaganda Secretary categorically stated that in the event of a hung Parliament being formed in 2002 the JVP will play their political cards as shrewdly as they did during the latter stages of the last Parliament but totally ruled out the possibility of propping up the UNF.

"There is no doubt that the JVP will become the king-maker of the new Parliament.

And we emphasise that the JVP will never allow our MPs to be bought over by corrupt elements of either the UNP or the PA and that we will become a political stooge of either party.

Of the two parties we may consider the PA as a viable option to form a government as their performance during the JVP_PA MoU was impressive.

Of the two major parties the PA showed genuine concern to the pressing problems of the country and they agreed to the proposals mooted by us.

But the UNP is entirely a different kettle of fish.

The JVP will never ever go behind them and neither do we expect them to come behind us", he noted.

He lastly urged the people to teach the UNP a massive political lesson and send them packing to the political wilderness which they truly deserve.

JVP Maharagama Chief Organiser Sunil Handunetti also addressed the rally.

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