JVP Blames President For Taking JVP Rejects

JVP MP Vijitha Herath, addressing a media briefing held at the JVP headquarters yesterday (22), charged that the so called defectors of the JVP were recently taken to the SLFP by the President. They were in fact rejects of the party and were not party members anymore. He also referred to the President as a ‘bothal paththara karaya’ (collector of discarded bottles and old news papers).

“Look at the individuals the President is so proud of recruiting to the SLFP. They are rejects of the JVP who had either left the party or who the party has no interest in associating with them. The President is so politically bankrupt that he stooped to the level of enlisting cheap, useless politicians rejected by another political party

He went on to say that every single nomination of the JVP had been accepted while other parties struggled with the nomination lists.

“Nominations of the 311 electorates the JVP is contesting were accepted without a problem. However, we noted that other parties, particularly the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the SLFP had nominated several shady figures with criminal backgrounds,” he charged.