The JVP’s whole
political strategy to walk over UNP, SLFP and now SLPP to win the Parliamentary
elections to form a government of their own is to dupe the people, by false
allegations against popular political leaders, and making dangerous
propositions.
For the
majority of the people in Sri Lanka JVP is a party of immature political dreamers.
They started a revolution which failed
no sooner they began it. Later they came into main stream politics and they
were seen as young hopefuls despite their criminal beginning.
Once they
had a few members who were able to think more like left wing politicians and partnered with the President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
That was the only time they were successful and won a good number of seats in the Parliament
and shared Ministries in President Chandrika Kumaratung’s government. Thereafter
they lost their heads and had been in the political wilderness leaving pro- socialist parties to seek
partnership with right wing UNP. The people hate them more for it.
The JVP
leaders are very slow in learning
political lessons from their past errors or even the past success. In 2015 they
thought they could make a political come back by becoming hunters of political criminals. It
was a regular sight seeing the JVP leaders going to the Bribery Commission
with heavy files in their hands, giving
interviews declaring members of the previous Rajapakse government as corrupt
and thieves, before any law court had judged any one of them guilty.
They were
against the popular pro-socialist Rajapaksas , and joined with the right wing
UNP and claimed the President Rajapakse’s
defeat at the Presidential election partly due to their campaign against Rajapaksas.
They began campaigning for the
2015, August General elections on the theme that both Rajapakse lead
UPFA and the UNP are corrupt and formed a special JVP Committee to hunt the
thieves in the Previous Government of Rajapakse, and to highlight corruption in UNP.
The
Strategy was that by proving both the UPFA and the UNP consist of corrupt politicians
they-the JVP could come before the people as a corruption free clean political
party and thereby win the election with massive vote to form a progressive left
wing Government for the first time in Sri Lanka !!!
The people
attended their election campaign meetings in large numbers and they believed
they will have a landslide victory thus chasing both Rajapakses and UNP out of
politics. But unfortunately the people
thought otherwise and the JVP managed to
get only six members elected to the Parliament.
But they
made a hue and cry that though they got only six seats in the Parliament they
had been able to increased JVP vote
base. But way the JVP is now going with
a politically lame leader like Anura Kumara Dissanayake it would be a surprise if the JVP would even
get six seats in Parliament next time.
JVP has missed
the bus to become a popular political party. Sri
Lanka poltics are based on hate campaigns, therefore it
is the people who suffer unable to have an appropriate Government to make Sri Lanka great
again. UNP is against the SLFP . They got Maithripala Sirisena to be their
common Presidential Candidate to come to
power on his back, but they have no respect to him. Maithripala Sirisena after
becoming the President became the worst enemy of the President Mahinda Rajapakse-the most popular political
leader of Sri Lanka
even to-day.
UNP,
JHU,TNA have enmity towards Mahinda Rajapakse and all his Associates, specially
those popular politicians like Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gamanpila etc. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the
rest of them hate Wimal Weerawansa above all and next Mahinda Rajapakse not for
any reason but because they are popular amoung the people and as long as they
remain popular with the people JVP has
no place in the hearts of the people.
In a world
where even the North Korean Leader seeks unity with South Korea there is no
reason why JVP cannot get together even with Mahinda Rajapakse and Wimal Weeravansa.
Because if the JVP were to make a political partnership with the SLPP, they may have a better chance to
get more votes , than the bleak future one sees for JVP with their seeking the
lime light for themselves in Sri Lanka’s political stage.
If their
hatred towards Wimal Weerawansa is the reason for JVP to rest aloof from left
wing socialist politics, they can be sure they have no political future in Sri Lanka . One
need not know space science to understand that.
Further
more, what good has JVP done so far to the people of Sri Lanka for them to have
confidence in JVP ? Perhaps there is no family in the South who did not suffer
the death of a near or distant loved one by the murderous insurgence of the JVP. Most often those memories remain the measure on which the people assess a
political party. It is the same with Ranil Wickramasinghe of UNP for his
criminal past of the Batalanda torture
camps., and his subsequent role in dismantling the Military Safe House in the Millenium City Housing Complex.
Then since
JVP’s role in the bringing into power of a divastataing Yahapalanaya, it has
become a Marxist police service employed by the UNP to hunt for
Criminals of previous Government of
the former President Mahinda Rajapakse who is the number one enemy of
UNP as well. But JVP’s political criminals hunting effort was an utter failure which they
nevertheless untiringly pursue as they seem to have nothing else to do.
The JVP
that talks a lot has done absolutely
nothing for the welfare of the country and the well being of the people. In the
north the Tamils are manifesting against
the building of Buddhist temples, and Sinhala settlments. The Tamils
refuse to allow the Buddha Statues set
up in the North, while they are proposing to set up statues of terrorist
leaders who died in the military operation against terrorism by the Armed Forces.
The Tamil
Provincial Councillors of the North want
the number of Soldiers in the North and East reduced. They do not want Buddhism and History
included in School curriculums in the North . The Tamils in the North want to give the Names of terrorists leaders
to roads in the North and the East. The Tamils are slowly building a Tamil
Eelam in the North and the East.
But we do
not see the JVP protesting against these activities of the Tamils in the North
, their disfiguration of Sri
Lanka , and the peril to the Sinhala Buddhist
country being caused by the Tamils. The JVP stands mute when the National
Anthem was allowed to be sung in Tamil. Are the JVP anti Sinhala Buddhists, Buddhist Culture in Sri Lanka ?
JVP join
hands with the Yahapalanaya Government to bring in Bills in the Parliament which turn out to be
absurd and unworkable such as the recent Local Government elections bill. Why doesn’t JVP speak out
against Yahapalanaya government’s accusations against the Army Officers and
keep them in Prison without any action being taken against them or releasing
them if there are no valid accusation ?
Why has JVP not spoken against the setting up of an Office of Missing
Persons ?
JVP as a Marxist Political Party has no interest in the fact of Sri Lanka being
a Sinhala Buddhist country, and that it
is their duty to defend that historic value. The Tamils and the foreign enemies
of Sri Lanka want Sri Lanka a
divided country, and for that the Ranil Sirisena Government was preparing a new
Constitution making it a federal constitution in form so that the Tamils will have
the right to form a separate Province for themselves in a merged North and
East.
The JVP has no interest in the country and its
people, but their main objective is taking over political power to forma a JVP Government.
With that interest in mind the JVP has found a new strategy as they cannot
depend on a majority Sinhala Buddhist votes at elections. Therefore JVP is now turning towards the TNA and the
Tamils hoping at a future elections to get the Tamil votes for themselves, and enhance their future election hopes.
The JVPs
proposal for the 20th Amendment to the Constitution is therefore their means to approach the TNA and
the Tamils of the North and East and
some how win their assurance of
accepting JVP as a new political force in the south to which the TNA
would support by getting the Tamils to vote for the JVP Candidates in future
elections.
This the
TNA and the Tamils of the North may accept as the New Constitution on which they
had placed their hopes to form a Tamil only Provincial Council of the North and
the East is not likely to be presented
to this Parliament as they had hoped. Therefore, the TNA and the Tamil have an
alternative to have a powerful Tamil only Provincial Council in a merged North
and East, if the Executive powers of the President were to be removed under the
20th Amendment proposed by the JVP.
This is the
means the JVP is using this time to dupe the Parliament and the people.
Therefore the political parties and the people should take note of this most
dangerous 20th Amendment to
the Constitution proposed by the JVP and reject it at the outset not allowing
the JVP to even bring it to the Parliament.
This is the
reason why the JVP has proposed to have their May Day Rally in Jaffna .