JVP is Dead Against Giving Land to China

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),  leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, that  the JVP  is dead against privatization   of state enterprises . It was totally opposed to the sale of some 15,000 acres of land in Hambantota to a Chinese company and warned it would not allow the government to go ahead with this sale.

He further said , that the biggest economic zone in India, “Sri City India” is located only  on 7,000 acres. We must stop this 15,000 acres of land  sale to China. The government claims that the lands have been sold to set up an economic zone.

Dissanayake said the Government had planned to sell a large amount of land including Ports, graphite mines and mineral mines to private companies.

“The government has planned to sell the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company saying it was debt-ridden with no ships arriving at the port. How will ships come after it is sold to a private company? This is a Port which can be developed as a service port, which was a proposal made during the tenure of former president Chandrika Kumaratunge,” he said

He said they would launch a massive protest campaign in January next year against the government’s destructive economic policy of selling State property to private companies and invited the people to join them in this struggle.