JVP paying for its sins – Sajith

by Cyril Wimalasurendre

KANDY – The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), is at present paying for the evil committed in the past by overthrowing the United National Party (UNP) government led by Ranil Wickremasinghe in connivance with the People’s Alliance, Hambantota District MP Sajith Premadasa said at the launch of a programme to give financial assistance from the Janasuwaya Development Scheme to low income groups in the Senakadagala electorate.

Financial assistance is provided to invest on self-employment projects. One hundred persons are to receive assistance as the first group from the Sanakadagala electorate.

Speaking on the occasion at the E. L. Senanayake Children’s Library auditorium, MP Sajith Premadasa, Chairman of the Janasuwaya Development Programme, said that the JVP was shattered to pieces.

The JVP which was accepted to be a body of marvelous experts, has now declined to such a situation that nobody is ready to listen to the bearded revolutionaries at the Lipton Round-about.

There is no national politics in Sri Lanka. Policies and principles are not honoured in Sri Lanka politics. Politics here is based on jealousy, enemity, illwill, vengeance, hatred and vanity, Premadasa said.

He said history has shown that whenever the UNP is in power, the Maxist minority group together with the Opposition enter into a marriage and obstruct plans for development of the country. The minority groups did the same to throw out the UNP government led by Ranil Wickremasinghe by supporting the former President. If the UNP administration was allowed to continue, the country could have been rescued from the present state of chaos. The people could have lived a better life.

It is easy to criticize a government in power, but hard to rule a country. The JVP is reaping what they sowed.

Premadasa said that he had no ulterior motive of politicl advantage in assisting the people of Kandy district. He said he was fully aware that the people of the Kandy district could not vote for him because he constested in Hambantota.

He said he decided to help the people of Senkadagala with the genuine intention of uplifting the standard of living of the poor. He had yet another objectives of helping the people of the birth place of his wife. Mrs. Premadasa hails from a reputed family in the Kandyan region.

However, he said he launched the programme with the consent of MP Lakshman Kirielle and at the invitation of the Central Provincial Council Member and Chief UNP, organiser for Senkadagala, Chanaka Ilepperuma.

Mayor of Kandy, L. B. Aluwihare, former Mayor Kesara D. Senanayake, Central Provincial Council Member Ms Shanthini Kongahage and Chairman Gangawatte Korale Pradeshiya Sabha, Mahinda Yatawara also spoke.