JHU on SLFP proposals

Chamikara Weerasinghe

COLOMBO: The Jathika Hela Urumaya has decided to move away from the Government after SLFP proposals submitted to the All Party Representative Committee in reaching a political solution to the national question.

As pointed out by The Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the SLFP) has breached the mandate given to it by the public for what is envisaged in the Mahinda Chinthana in 2005 as with these proposals.

The General Secretary of Jathika Hela Urumaya Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera said that the proposals of the SLFP had violated the people's mandate for preserving a unitary State in as much they had breached the Dalada Consensus, reached between the President and the Jathika Hela Urumaya.

The Urumaya said in a press release that Jathika Hela Urumaya, as a party that is committed to preserve the country's unitary State and the longevity of the Buddhasasana by sacrifice of their own lives, can no way agree with the SLFP proposals in principle .

The Urumaya has also said that if it were to stand by with the government rising from its decision for withdrawing, the SLFP proposals should be amended before they will be presented to the Sri Lanka's Secretariat for Co-ordinating Peace Process.

The party also vowed that they would not allow power hungry opportunist political elements to make any advances over their disagreement with the Government.