{"id":92898,"date":"2019-09-08T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92898"},"modified":"2019-09-08T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:22:20","slug":"what-is-the-economic-policy-of-janatha-vimukthi-peramuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/08\/what-is-the-economic-policy-of-janatha-vimukthi-peramuna\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF JANATHA VIMUKTHI PERAMUNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Edward Theophilus<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

It is widely published in overseas that\nJVP will nominate a candidate for the presidential election with the support of\na TV channel which has been giving wide publicity for the candidate since 2016\nin its two major programs in Sinhala and English.  The candidate associated with audit\nactivities and good for talking about audit work, but the public has a question\nwhether the audit work is the only expected policy work from the president and\nwhy these people were silent on many malpractices, which were wilfully\nactivating during the tenure of Mr. Sirisena. However, now it has published\nthat JVP leader Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake will be contested in presidential\nelection.  It is good and reflects the\nwide democracy in the country although JVP originally under the leadership of\nMr. Rohana Wijeweera did not recognize the democratic politics and in 1971 JVP\nsupporters in universities publicly stated that when they come to power by an\narmed struggle, they will kill all traitors and hang them in power posts.  I hope that current JVP has given up the\nconcept of Armed Struggle intending to achieve liberation for proletarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JVP has already submitted the 20th<\/sup>\namendment to the Constitution to the parliament in which the focus is to\nabolish the Executive presidency and allow more than two times to a person who\nwas in the position of president in the country.  Is that the open policy of JVP, why they want\nto keep a hidden policy to play a role to cabal the votes of a popular\npresidential candidate or indirectly help to UNP as they did in 2015 betraying\nMr. Wijeweera\u2019s policy and in support of the broader hate of JVPers who\nsacrificed the lives during 1988\/89.  Is\nJVP a subsidiary of UNP and the regime of corrupt after 2015.  JVP cannot deny that a member of the list\nnominated for appointing after 2015 general election was an actively\nparticipated in terrorist activities with a suicide bomber of Easter\nSunday.  At his residence, several police\nofficers sacrificed lives as the daughter in law of revolutionary nominated for\nappoint the parliament as a representative of JVP exploded a bomb killing\nherself and others.  Is current JVP a\nrespected political party or a party used by UNP for political\nprostitution?  UNP had been had political\nand economic policies since its inception and JVP hasn\u2019t had a clear economic\npolicy since its inception and talks of JVP members in 1971 and after Marth\nimplied that the party has an economic policy, which would not be relevant to\nmodern states of the world. One of the stupid statements or bullshit of JVP\nleader in 1971 was to uproot tea plantation, which was the prime source of\nforeign exchange and heart of the economy and to plant Cassava as an industrial\nplantation, which was a highly controversial policy to people in Sri Lanka at\nthat time.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this background, people want to know\nwhat is the economic policy of JVP? \nTraditionally JVP committed to Marxist socialism and they were against\nthe private capital. When I was in Grade 12, I read a book, Labour and Capital\nauthored by V.I. Lenin and the argument about the ownership of capital in the\nbook were highly questionable to me as the owners of capital was interpreted as\nlabor, but not the entrepreneurship was argued in the book. At the university I\nquestioned from a JVP student leader, who was killed during 1988-89 about this\nargument as he was a student studying Philosophy, he could not answer for my\nquestion and he told me that JVP policy to follow economic policies of South\nKorea and South Yemen.  I strongly told\nhim that those two countries cannot help Sri Lanka to come up and JVP economic\npolicies neither relevant to Sri Lanka nor can help in providing jobs for\nunemployed.  I clearly told him managed\ncapitalist policies are the most relevant economic policies to the country,\nwhich had been depended on such capitalist policies since the beginning of\nSinhala state, later my friend reasonably accepted the argument, but in 1971,\nhe was blindly stuck to JVP and I could not redeem him from the blindness of\nJVP policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If JVP presidential candidate wins in\nthe next presidential election will they take over profits of all private\ncompanies and distribute among poor people who are the class of no wealth?  The world has been radically modernized in\ntechnology and ideas since 1971, in fact people cannot depart from capitalist\nthinking today, however, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his team thinking would be\nhelpful to upgrade Sri Lanka’s economy like a modern welfare state. During the\ntenure of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the advice of Mr. Ajith Nivard Cabral and Dr.\nJayasundadara supported to manage the economy at a reasonable level. The\ngovernment debt management is the most important area to the country where\nneeds at least US $ 100 billion investment from outside during next 10 years\nand for this purpose the country be creditworthy to obtain credit supports from\nUSA, China, Japan, and India.  For this\npurpose, Sri Lanka needs removing government debt from books and be a\ncreditworthy country to obtain billions of credits and double the economy\nwithin five years increasing the annual rate of growth to at least 8% or over.\n(if the rate of growth at 1% it would take 70 years to double the economy and\nif the rate of growth 8%, the economy will be double most probably within 7\nyears as the multiplier process would be strong in current dynamism). Does JVP\nunderstand this jargon, no is my feeling and voting to JVP is wasting votes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no doubt Sri Lanka\u2019s economy\ncan be lifted to a higher level and people of the country must be united with\nno too much politics be in the country. \nThe politics of the country is good for bullshiting than doing a right\njob to the country. \n\n\n\n\n\nm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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