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| SLFP - JVP Alliance will strengthen working class - Ceylon Workers Alliance The Ceylon Workers Alliance (CWA) yesterday expressed hopes that the SLFP-JVP Alliance to be signed tomorrow will champion the rights of working class, while strengthening democracy and human rights. A media release by the CWA said: "The long awaited Alliance between the SLFP and the JVP is to be launched by the two parties at a colourful ceremony at the BMICH on January, 20. Two Secretaries Maithripala Sirisena of the SLFP and Wimal Weerawansa of the JVP would sign a document referring to an action program comprising five main principles named 'Pancha Maha Pilivetha', which the SLFP executive committee and the Parliamentary Group in-one-voice approved, stated R. K. Suresh, Director Administration and the General Secretary of the Ceylon Estate Staff's Association in a press statement. He states that this is a common policy on the economy, the ethnic conflict, foreign policy, culture and the broadening of democracy and human rights. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who is the architect of this Alliance committed to abide by Ceasefire Agreement, without washing her hands off the peace process. Though the JVP was stamped as a communalistic party, they in the recent past raise their voices in the Parliament and outside for the working class of the country specially the plantation workers and the Estate staff, who are being treated as the life-blood of the country. The long-awaited Alliance is to support each other in Parliament and in any election, which means the opposition has become strengthened and hopes of winning the coming Provincial and General Election with a record-breaking majority. This is not the end, but only the beginning, as other parties within the PA and Tamil and Muslim Parties too will soon be joining. The LTTE also assured that they would negotiate with the party which commands a majority and has obtained the mandate of the masses. He prayed the Alliances under the name of the 'Eksath Janatha Nidhahas Peramuna' under the President of Sri Lanka should win with huge majority at the coming election and bring a solution to the ethnic issue. |
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