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Somawansa Amarasingh’s Dream, will take JVP in to the fold of UNP

By Charles Perera

All those Politically failed politicians are dreamers. Mangala Samaraweera and Sripathy Sooriyaarachchi have begun a challenge of a dream while JVP build its dream on a Broad Peoples’ Front. They are both failures.

Neither Mangala Samaraweera nor Sooriaarchchi has the capability of leadership. They are born to serve and not to lead the people. Somawansa Amarasinghe has neither the ability to appeal for the people to rally round him, nor has he the personality that inspire confidence of the masses.
Therefore, neither set of dreamers would be able to set up a government of the people.

Talking over a loud-speaker addressing the masses is one thing, forming a government and leading a nation on the path of progress is another thing. This is not the first time that a Marxist Party launches a Political front with the intention of forming a Peoples’ Government. Mahajana Eksath Peramuna that brought together the LSSP lead by N.M.Perera, C P lead by Peter Keunaman, and the VSSP by Philippe Gunawardhana was acclaimed by the people with great expectation. And unlike Somawansa Amarasinghe or Samaraweera, the men who lead those left parties were political colossuses. But yet they soon broke up and Philippe Gunawardhane ended up a meek Minister under Dudley Senanayake in the UNP.

Then the LSSP wanted to campaign alone an election to form its own government, and it turned out to be an utter failure. And the PA and the UPFA are recent history. The Broad People’s Front will not last long and even if they continue to face an election they will never get a respectable
number of seats even to form a coalition government along with the TNA. As
for Mangala Samaraweera he may probably join the UNP.

JVP was a potentially progressive political party. It is losing its credibility because of an extra ambitious leader of the party who had been promoted to that position apparently as a mark of respect to its Origin as a revolutionary party under its late leader Rohana Wijeweera, and also for the reason of his command of English in contrast to the other leaders of the party. JVP if sanity prevails should join with the President to together develop Sri Lanka after the end of terrorism, the day of which cannot be very far from the way the Security Forces are active in its object of elimination of terrorism from Sri Lanka. If not JVP will end up in the ranks of the UNP.

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