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SLFP-JVP alliance solution for national crisis by Deepal Warnakulasuriya Chief Opposition Whip, PA MP Mangala Samaraweera, said on Friday, that the country's national problem will be solved by an SLFP - JVP coalition which would lay a solid foundation for a final settlement and assured that parties allied with the PA and other minority parties like EPDP, PLOT and EPRLF will also be invited to join them. Samaraweera was speaking at the Patriotic National Movement (PNM) rally at the Campbell Park where more than 40,000 supporters had gathered. The march was organised by the PNM represented by the SLFP, JVP, MEP, Sri Lanka Haritha Party and several other personalities, to protest against the LTTE proposals for an Interim Self Governing Authority submitted to the Government last week. All the speakers at the rally alleged that the proposals had been completely prepared to set up a Tamil Eelam within several years. They stressed that the LTTE proposals had revealed only about the separation of power in their document. Samaraweera said that steps taken by the President to take over three ministries would however, not be revoked, and warned that many more such steps would follow, that would help to save the country from separation. He also said that a few problems the SLFP had with the JVP had been completely overcome and that both parties had pledged to work together for the motherland. JVP Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa said that the so-called ISGA should be thrown away without a second glance. He said that the LTTE had asked everything for a separate regime in the North and East with the supreme powers of the legislature and judiciary. The founder member of the PNM, the Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera, said that the PNM was formed at a crucial juncture where the country needed a movement far above politics to guide the politicians. The Thera also asked the SLFP and JVP to go for an alliance, but warned that if it was not for the motherland, the PNM would again go on the streets. The Interim Self-Governing Authority proposals of the LTTE, were not prepared for the leaders of the country but for the international community, and the PM had received only a copy of that document, Gunadasa Amarasekara, an eminent author, said. President's Senior Advisor, Anura Bandaranaike, PA MP Arjuna Ranatunga, MEP Leader Dinesh Gunawardena, National Bhikkhu Front convenor Ven. Dambara Amila Thera, and several others also spoke. A number of PA, JVP and NUA parlimentarians participated at the rally. |
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