VIDEO: JVP dissidents to follow independent path?

If the rebellious group within the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) does not receive authority over the party, they will continue political activities as an independent revolutionary party, internal sources of the JVP said.

However, they have decided to test their power within the party as well as externally, until the wary end. It is said that along with the JVP division on the national issue and alliance politics, one group has prepared to take legal action.

The Somawansa Amarasinghe-led group which accepts alliance politics mainly consists of the more popular JVP leaders that consistently appear in public. 

Rejecting alliance politics and wanting the party to continue as a revolutionary political party is the group including Kumara, who appears as an internal leader of the JVP.

According to the registry of the Elections Commissioner’s office the political council of the JVP includes Somawansa Amarasinghe, Tilvin Silva, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Vijitha Herath, K.D. Lalkantha, G. Kularathne, Pubudu Jagoda and Dimuthu Atigala while in addition to them the internal political council of the party also comprises of leaders Kumara, Opatha, Marlan and Ashoka.

It has been reported that JVP Leader Somawansa Amarasinghe has taken measures to remove not only Pubudu Jagoda and Dimuthu Atigala from the political council but all the leaders of the dissident group as well.

It is also said that no matter what the prominent JVP leaders, including its parliamentarians, claim the entire organized network of the Marxist, Communist political party, from the top to the bottom, is led by Kumara’s direction. 

Even though until two days back it had been decided to call for the General Assembly to address the internal issues of the party, with the Somawansa team wining with a majority of one vote from the Central Committee, which has split as 12 and 13, it changed its decision.   

Consequently the dissident group led by Kumara with the signatures of several internal leaders of the party has set out to take legal action seeking a court order calling for a General Assembly in order to rid the party of Somawansa and his group of loyalists.

However, currently the media unit of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has been completely dissolved while the prominent leaders and dissident leaders continue to exercise their powers.