{"id":42562,"date":"2015-03-22T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42562"},"modified":"2015-03-22T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T23:03:10","slug":"jvp-thinking-big-reply-to-the-island-editorial-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/22\/jvp-thinking-big-reply-to-the-island-editorial-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"JVP thinking big – Reply to the Island editorial comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jayantha Liyanage, \u00a0General Secretary, Sinhala Jathika Peramuna (SJP),<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I refer to the editorial comments that appeared in the Island Newspaper dated 07.03.2015.<\/p>\n

The editorial comments states But, thankfully, he stressed that the JVP no longer believed in armed struggles. People, especially those with young sons and daughters, must have been relieved to hear that the JVP would not use T-56s in its T-20 (or 2020) struggle. It is always good for democracy when an ultra radical outfit opts for a democratic struggle to achieve its objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was exactly what people said when the JVP entered democratic politics and contested the Presidential election in 1982 in which the JVP\u2019s architect and the leader himself was a candidate. Everybody thought that the JVP has given up violent means to achieve state power.<\/p>\n

But the then public was mistaken badly and only just six years later when the political conditions were right to initiate another armed struggle to achieve power through a different form of terror different from 1971 method in which the JVP, then Che Guevara was an army in uniforms. During 1988 – 1989 period it was armed but without uniforms.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the public has clear empirical knowledge that it did not renounced violent means i.e. the revolutionary methods to achieve power but marked time until the political conditions were right for another revolution.<\/p>\n

JVP is a Marxist political party and according to its method to achieve power is only through armed struggle or uprising and none of the pioneers of communist revolutions in various countries, Lenin, Fidel Castro Mao followed or recommended power through parliamentary elections. Therefore, if one believes that the JVP has entered democratic means to capture state power then he or she is sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n

To the JVP achieving state power through a parliamentary election would amount to a thief earning money from a job. To a thief, the real value of money comes through stealing because to him it is a challenge and then only that money has any value. It is in his in born nature to steal.<\/p>\n

Similarly if the JVP achieve state power through a parliamentary election then it would not have its sentimental value like the sentiments that they have about their 1971 revolution, which they remember with such reverence. They will transform a parliamentary election win into a revolution at the last minute and create a one party state with proletariat dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Therefore what we see JVP\u2019s democratic means is only a big pretends and its aim to achieve state power through a revolution remains in its pristine form in their PETTAGAMA at its Pelawatte Party HQ.<\/p>\n

The sad thing is that there are no politicians in any of the political parties who is willing to challenge the JVP for a debate and to expose their political objectives to the public and even more sad thing is that the popular TV channels do not willing to give any chance to anybody else other than those politicians from registered political parties to appear and to expose the real political nature of this \u2018Yamapalla\u2019 outfit now wearing a \u2018sil reddha\u2019.<\/p>\n

Jayantha Liyanage,<\/p>\n

General Secretary, Sinhala Jathika Peramuna (SJP),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jayantha Liyanage, \u00a0General Secretary, Sinhala Jathika Peramuna (SJP), I refer to the editorial comments that appeared in the Island Newspaper dated 07.03.2015. The editorial comments states But, thankfully, he stressed that the JVP no longer believed in armed struggles. People, especially those with young sons and daughters, must have been relieved to hear that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562","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=42562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}