Selling State Assets is Not Answer for Economic Woes – JVP Anura

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna   (JVP ) leader Anura Dissanayake addressing the media in Colombo yesterday, determine   to gather  support of   the people against the government   move to sell state assets  to resolve economic woes.   He said its public awareness campaign will start today from the Colombo Fort.

He said selling state assets was not the answer to the government’s economic woes. The government should make a honest appraisal about its performance during the last two years and learn from the mistakes  to  rectify  it’ s mistakes.

The JVP leader also slammed a proposed move to hand over a majority of shares of the Hambantota port to a Chinese company and also a decision to lease 15,000 acres in Hambantota to another Chinese company to set up a trade zone.

“The people elect a government to use resources in the country with a good management for the development.

However, this government is selling and sacrificing the most important resources that belong to the people. As a political party and trade union movement, we would begin a street struggle against government’s policy of selling and sacrificing country’s resources,” he said.

Dissanayake said the JVP will hold a massive protest in Hambantota on January 5 against  the move.