UNP would never return to power - JVP Leader

Indika POLKOTUWA

Sri Lanka would have ended up in division by now with a state of Eelam in the North if Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected President at the last Presidential election.

Therefore, the JVP has no regrets for having enabled President Mahinda Rajapaksa to win the last Presidential election said JVP Leader Somawansa Amarasinghe.

The JVP Leader said so addressing a party rally held near the Kandy Central Market on Monday, March 10.

The rally was held to protest against alleged moves to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which the JVP says would lead to a division of the country.

Amarawansa said the JVP’s stand at the last Presidential election helped to save a division of the country. If the people thought the JVP had taken a wrong decision then they would expect the people to pardon them like a mother would do to an errant child.

Amarawansa said the JVP would categorically state that the UNP would never return to power in this country again.

He said the JVP which was in the doldrums had now risen to be a powerful political force in this country.

The UNP had now resorted to the practice of pasting posters which the JVP did 42 years ago. This proved that the UNP had gone 42 years backwards.