Weerawansa, Pillayan discuss alliance

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 10:04 GMT]
Wimal Weerawansa, a pro-government politician who heads a breakaway faction of the Sinhala extreme nationalist JVP, Saturday morning held discussions with Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, the leader of the paramilitary-cum-political party TMVP, who was recently installed by Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling UPFA as the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, to reach a 'common understanding' and to form a 'common political front', informed sources in Colombo told TamilNet. Meanwhile, JVP sources, when contacted with the news, described the move as 'alliance of puppets.'
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SL Supreme Court dismisses petitions against dissolution of provincial councils

[TamilNet, Saturday, 21 June 2008, 01:11 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court Friday refused without inquiry four petitions filed separately by the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) challenging the dissolution of the Sabragamuwa Provincial Council and North central Provincial Council by the respective governors was illegal. UNP filed two petitions, one against the dissolution of SPC and the other against NCPC. Like wise the JVP also filed two petitions, legal sources said.
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Dissident JVP parliamentarian seeks security from police

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 June 2008, 20:56 GMT]
Anjana Umma, dissident Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Friday wrote to the Inspector General of Police seeking security for her as she and her family members have been facing threats due to her latest political decision, media sources said.
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JVP dissident parliamentarian says she is safe

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 June 2008, 11:23 GMT]
Anjana Umma, the dissident Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Friday around 10:50 a.m. telephoned the Officer-in-Charge of the Mirigama Police and said she is safe. She contacted the police by telephone in response to the complaint made by her husband Thursday night that he had not heard about his wife since she left to parliament on June 16 with two her parliamentary colleagues.
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Dissident JVP parliamentarian missing, husband complains

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 June 2008, 02:46 GMT]
Anjana Umma, a dissident parliamentarian of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), who on June 17 expressed her desire to function as independent has not returned home since she left for parliament with two other JVP parliamentarians, according to the complaint lodged with the Mirigama police by her husband Farook Thursday night, an electronic media reported Friday morning.
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Anjana Umma to join JNP led by Weerawanse

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 19:08 GMT]
Anjana Umma, the latest dissident parliamentarian of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has expressed her desire Wednesday to join the Janatha Nidahas Peramuna (JNP), which is led by Wimal Weerawanse. Ms Anjana Umma, the sole Muslim parliamentarian of the JVP in the Sri Lanka parliament had announced Tuesday that she was going to function as an independent.
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SL Supreme Court to inquire petitions against PCs dissolution

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 19:07 GMT]
Petitions filed by the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) separately challenging the dissolution of Sabragamuwa Provincial Council and North Central Provincial Council are to be inquired by a panel of judges of the Supreme Court, legal sources said.
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JVP Muslim woman parliamentarian to function as independent

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 02:22 GMT]
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Ms Anjana Umma representing Gampaha district has decided to function as an independent, parliamentary sources said. She made this known to parliamentary circles Tuesday when she made a complaint to the police unit in the parliament seeking their assistance to get her two vehicles assigned to her from the party.
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JVP trade unions announce token strike demanding wage increase

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 10:19 GMT]
The National Trade Union Centre (NTUC), which claims that it comprises of hundreds of public, private and state sector trade unions, has called for a one-day token general strike on July 10 demanding a salary increase of five thousand rupees to public, private and state sector employees and a five hundred rupees increase in the daily wage of plantation workers. NTUC is backed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)
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Rajapakse-Weerawanse agree on establishing All Party Defense Council

[TamilNet, Monday, 16 June 2008, 20:05 GMT]
The United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government has agreed to set up an All Party Defense Council as suggested by the Janatha Nidahas Peramuna (JNP), a splinter group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) to take precautionary steps to curb the increase of bomb explosions in the south. A decision to this effect was taken at a discussion held Monday between President Mahinda Rajapakse and the JNP delegation led by Wimal Weerawanse, presidential secretariat sources said.
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JVP to announce general strike date

[TamilNet, Sunday, 15 June 2008, 17:34 GMT]
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leadership said Sunday the date for the general strike demanding a salary increase of five thousand rupees to public servants has been finalized. "We will announce the date of our general shut down Monday at a news conference," said JVP parliamentarian K.D.Lalkantha in the capacity of the President of the National Trade Union Centre (NTUC). NTUC which has a membership of one hundred trade unions is the front organization of the JVP in the trade union sector.
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Weerawanse to meet Rajapakse

[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 June 2008, 17:37 GMT]
Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawanse, leader of the Janatha Nidahas Peramuna (JNP), a splinter group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is scheduled to meet Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse on Monday. This would be the first official meeting between the Wimal Weerawanse and Mahinda Rajapakse after the split in the JVP, political sources said.
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11 new political parties apply for registration

[TamilNet, Friday, 13 June 2008, 17:17 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Commissioner of Elections is to hold interview to leaders of eleven newly formed political parties who have applied for registration on June 17. Janatha Nidahas Peramuna (JNP), a splinter group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led by Wimal Weerawanse is one of eleven parties. Meanwhile the Commissioner of Elections is reported to have decided to call for nominations for the Sabragamuwa Provincial Council (SPC) and North Central Provincial Council (NCPC).
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East CM wants foreign funds for rehabilitation

[TamilNet, Thursday, 12 June 2008, 16:16 GMT]
"We need assistance from foreign countries to provide dwellings to resettle displaced," said Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, the Chief Minister of Eastern Province and the head of TMVP paramilitary. "My administration will not show any discrimination while maintaining law and order with our own police force," he said.
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Dissolution of provincial councils to be challenged in court

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 18:02 GMT]
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Tuesday announced that it would file action against the dissolution of the Sabragamuwa Provincial Council and North Central provincial Council. Opposition leaders in these two councils have also announced their decision to take up this matter in courts, sources in Colombo said.
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JVP Trincomalee parliamentarian protests against fishing ban

[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 June 2008, 14:29 GMT]
Trincomalee district parliamentarian of the Sinhala nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Jayantha Wijesekara while participating in the emergency debate in parliament on Thursday said that people of Trincomalee district had a better life under the control of LTTE than under the rule of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. If the present fishing ban continues, the LTTE would draw popular support among the rural people for armed struggle, he warned.
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JVP to file case opposing Indian power plant in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 June 2008, 14:11 GMT]
Parliamentarian Vijitha Heart, propaganda secretary of the Sinhala nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said Saturday in Colombo that his party has been contemplating to file a case in the superior court against handing over several acres of lands in Champoor in Trincomalee district to India for constructing a coal power plant.
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Emergency extended for another month

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 21:01 GMT]
Sri Lanka's parliament Thursday adopted the motion to extend the state of emergency by another month with a majority of 89 votes. 106 parliamentarians voted for the motion and 19 parliamentarians voted against. Parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) were not present in the house at that time when the motion was put to vote, parliamentary sources said.
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UNP, SLMC councilors boycott EPC first sitting

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 00:32 GMT]
Fifteen councilors elected to the 35 member Eastern Provincial Council on the main opposition United National Party (UNP) ticket Wednesday boycotted the first sitting of the council convened on the instruction by the East Provincial Governor Mohan Wijewickrema, sources in Trincomalee said. Eighteen councilors elected on the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and sole member of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and of the Democratic National Tamil Alliance (DNTA) participated.
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JVP to launch trade union action next month

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 11:29 GMT]
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) at its fifth national convention held in Colombo Tuesday declared that its trade unions would launch a struggle demanding salary increase to public and private sector employees from the month of June. Parliamentarian K.D.Lal Kantha, the leader of the National Trade Union Federation of the JVP trade unions, said at the convention that people had been suffering immensely due to the increase of food and other essential items.
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