We had an opportunity to witness something unprecedented in Sri Lanka's political history during the campaigning period of the recently concluded Local Government election though it went largely unnoticed amidst the heat of the campaigning. JVP found a section of supporters who would have otherwise been the least likely bunch of supporters, had the party's leader was the current leader's predecessor. We could see some of the ardent lackeys of the Western Imperialists who included blue blooded capitalists, Eelamists , sworn anti- Sinhala Buddhists and some NGO figures were either openly campaigning for JVP or praising JVP as a clean party or a "crusader against corruption" for which worth voting. They campaigned for JVP in various public forms such as media which included electronic, print and social, press conferences and public meetings.
JVP was portrayed as an alternative to the "Hora Mahinda & his cronies" and "Corrupt UNP & SLFP". How could the capitalists and the lackeys of the Western imperialists become the supporters of JVP, a radical Marxist party which staged two bloody armed uprisings and was a staunch anti-imperialists and anti-Indian expansionists party?
The fact that JVP became a proxy of the Western Imperialists and the Indian Expansionists under its current leadership is never a secret to anyone who follows Sri Lanka's political developments. JVP played a decisive role helping the West and India to end the former president Mahinda's rule and installing the West's and India's puppet, the current Yahapalana regime. The West and India knew that their puppet regime was becoming increasingly unpopular by every passing day. They knew that Mahinda's popularity was largely intact and his newly formed party-SLPP was to make impressive electoral gains in the near future. On the other hand their lackey UNP's popularity was nose- diving under the leadership of Ranil Wickramasinhe resulting in a substantial loss of its traditional voter base. This scenario inevitably makes the Joint Opposition (JO) led by Mahinda to gain substantial ground electorally. The best way to deprive those gains is to ask people to vote for JVP as they know very well that JVP would never work against the West's and India's interests.
What we witnessed in the form of post-election comments by some prominent Yahapalana figures who included Mangala Samaraweera, Rajitha Senarathne, Sambanthan, Anura Kumara Disanayake, Champaka Ranawaka and some prominent NGO figures claiming that SLPP was actually the loser as the combined votes against it was greater than what It gained was a result of the ground work made asking people to vote for JVP. In other words JVP has metamorphosed itself to a handy proxy of the Neo-Cons. It is being used to destabilize Sri Lanka finally aimed at Balkanizing it. The most tragic part of it is that this reality is still unknown to many of its supporters, a section of gullible poor rural Sinhalese Buddhists whose brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers made supreme sacrifices to preserve the territorial integrity and the unity of their motherland. They will never know that their beloved party is hugely contributing to a greatest betrayal of their loved ones' supreme sacrifices!
