JVP to hold public meetings against UPFA government

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:31 GMT]
Sri Lanka's extreme Sinhala nationalist, Marxist, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is to hold a series of meetings southern Sri Lanka condemning the government for abandoning the Mahinda Chinthanaya principles, political sources in Colombo said. The first meeting of this series is to be held on February 15 evening at Nugegoda in Colombo, according to same sources.

Posters are seen in throughout the south for the first meeting.

The objective of holding these meetings to express opposition to the government led by President Mahinda Rajapakse for embracing federal concept and abandoning the unitary form for constitution embodied in the Mahinda Chinthanaya, JVP sources said.