{"id":122017,"date":"2022-01-10T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122017"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:22:22","slug":"should-people-give-a-chance-to-jvp-for-governing-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/10\/should-people-give-a-chance-to-jvp-for-governing-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOULD PEOPLE GIVE A CHANCE TO JVP FOR GOVERNING THE COUNTRY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I\nread in the media a specific cry that focused on giving a chance to JVP for\ngoverning the country. It is a highly responsible statement and why responsible\nstatement published in the media? What is the logic behind this cry? People do\nnot know speciously about this cry, but the cry seems like a media manipulation\nthan genuine feelings for people that they satisfied with the policies of JVP.\nFor example, if it asks the investment community in Sri Lanka, would they agree\nto give power to JVP with concrete policies to manage investments in the\ncountry? It might be difficult to get an answer. Investors in Sri Lanka have\nnot expressed views on this matter, but I heard in the UTUBE program that\naddressed by Mr Sunil Hadunneththi that he attempted to give answers to basic\neconomic problems from the point of view of JVP in the way Alfred Marshall\nexplained in the Principles of Economics and the speech further showed that JVP\nis desperate to gain parliamentary seats because they dropped to three seats in\nthe last election.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\njournalists who handle YouTube programs show that they need topics to attract\nusers and to survive using social media. The truth about social media in Sri\nLanka is, it focuses on being popularised, choosing the feeling of a few people\nor diminutive issues in society to maintain the market, but it is not a true\narchetype. Governing a country in the modern era is a highly responsible task\nthat needs broader knowledge, skills, experience and values. The major question\nis that has JVP got much broader knowledge, skills, experience and values to\ngovern a country. A channel run by UTUBE interviewed a JVP leader, who could\nnot express concrete views like an excellent leader and ideas like a\nresponsible person to express policy ideas to govern the country. He didn\u2019t\ntalk like a Good Shepard (Caring Person). He could not express I am the light\nof Sri Lanka and no beggar will die without food under my administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\nwho read print media and websites know about the cry because the idea has been\npublished as a major item to attract readers. But many people do not know about\nit because 95% of voters in Sri Lanka don\u2019t read print media. Neither a left\npolitical party in Sri Lanka has gained the political power of the country, nor\nit had become a major party after the election results. In this situation,\ncould JVP become a major party looking at the current status? The result of the\nlast election showed that JVP could gain only 3 seats in the country, and could\nthey achieve over 100 seats in the next election? If it analyses in that line,\nthe desire of JVP to gain power is a daydream rather than a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JVP\nis a talking party than proving its work, even it worked as a partner of the\ngovernment, JVP couldn\u2019t show the capability of policy development and\nimplementation and policy monitoring. If they want remedial past policies,\nhonestly they should accept that they have done wrong in the past and have\nremedial the past policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nwere the vital policies developed by JVP, which were supposed to implement\nsince the beginning of the party? This is an adamantine job in a complex\ndemocratic society that comprises ethnic and religious groups. However, other\nleft political parties contributed vital policies and ideas than JVP, people or\nnews media did not manipulate opinion to give a chance for them to govern the\ncountry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\ntalking about JVP, past incidents immediately come to the minds of people in\nwhich most of them were negative because they were destructive, and to gain\npower, the experience should come with excellent records, and does JVP carry\nsuch episodes in the party history. JVP had opportunities to associate with\nruling parties in the past, but they were not capable of proving that it would\nbe a party to give responsibilities. The experience of people in the past\noutweighs the facts. People had disgusting experiences in two insurrections\nbetween 1971 and 1988\u201389. The major issue had been the death of young people,\nwhose parents and relatives are still crying about their death and no one\nblames the government for deaths, and people\u2019s direct responsibility to the\nJVP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nissue invites broader views of the community, one important matter is no one\nhas a right to kill a person except in a situation for self-defence. During\nthese two insurrections, people sought security from the government, not from\nJVP. That mean JVP neither had armed power nor people\u2019s power to secure the\npublic and the strategy used by the government forces lost the confidence of\nthe public on the behaviour of JVP. The most notable point was no international\nsupport JVP in 1971 had other than North Korea and in 1988-89 gained any\nsupport except few organizations. This bad name about JVP is still in the minds\nof people. In 1971, I could recollect that they were making lists to kill\npeople, then clearly expressing policies that will not be supportive of\neconomic and social progress. After the 1971 insurrection, Mrs Sirimavo\nBandaranaike addressed the public over the radio and explained how JVP policy\nwas harmful to the economy and how JVP misled poor rural youth, who do not know\nabout economic and social policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe second insurrection, JVP failed to convince people they were peaceful and\nrespected democracy. During the second insurrection, key people of the country\nwere killed and people understood JVP can do nothing to recover the economy and\nto provide employment opportunities. The noted event was the destruction of the\ncomputer education centre of the open university campus in the south, giving a\nsignal that JVP was against modernization when the world goes forward with\ninformation technology. They set fire to many government transport buses, which\nwere poor people\u2019s transport devices. Pol pot style killing of educated people\nin the country led to earning a bad name for the JVP. Some people argue that\nawful work by the government forces to pointing fingures to JVP if was a true\nidea why JVP doesn\u2019t interest to reveal the truth.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JVP symbolically showed that they\nwere loving for destruction than a party that love to build the nation. Further,\nwhen they become a partner of the government, they could not prove those good\npolicies for nation-building and a party that people can trust in them. It\ndoesn\u2019t show that the ruling party in current Sri Lanka is concerned about the\nmedia cry. However, if JVP wants to gain power, they must develop policies and\npublish that people could trust that such policies will support to achieve the\nprogress of the country. Essentially, policies need to concentrate on the\nfollowing areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Economic policy<\/li>
  • Social policy<\/li>
  • Cultural Policy<\/li>
  • Policies to solve ethnic related problems<\/li>
  • Policy on the international relations<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS I read in the media a specific cry that focused on giving a chance to JVP for governing the country. It is a highly responsible statement and why responsible statement published in the media? What is the logic behind this cry? People do not know speciously about this cry, but the cry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}