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| Saturday, 21 February 2004 |
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| JVP's Chandrasekar challenges Puthrasigamani Former JVP MP Ramalingam Chandrasekar in a media announcement last Wednesday, in reply to former MP Puthrasigamani's allegation that the JVP is a communalist party which oppose the rights of Tamil people, challenged Puthrasigamani to point out a single instance of JVP's communalism or any opposition to the Tamil people winning their rights. JVP is a disciplined progressive political party basically dedicated to equality among citizens and abhor any form of discrimination on the basis of cast, race, creed and religion. That is a well-known fact among the people in this country. We emphasise this remark by Puthrasigamani to be nothing else other than an unfounded malicious statement, the media announcement stated. Clarifying further, Chandrasekar's media announcement stated that the JVP struggle for the solution of various problems of the estate workers to enhance their educational, health and housing facilities, carried out both within and without the Parliament are fully known to the estate masses though the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) may be unaware of them. When the Citizenship Bill to confer the rights of estate community came up in Parliament recently, the JVP members raised both hands in favour of the Bill. We ask Puthrasigamani whether that was a manifestation of the JVP's communalism, queried Chandrasekar. He challenged Puthrasigamani to substantiate his statement in an open dialogue and stressed that the JVP is opposed to any manner of separatist communalism whether on the part of the Sinhala, Tamil or any other group and that the JVP strongly believe that communalism should be wiped out altogether from its very origin. Former MP Puthrasigamani in a media briefing following his joining the CWC last Wednesday remarked that the JVP was a racist party which opposed granting of the rights of the Tamil people. |
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