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Shame! Not a single permanent house built: JVP
By Anthony David in London
UPFA Secretary Nandana Gunatilake told a JVP organised meeting in London that it was a shame that the government has still not been able to build a single permanent house for tsunami victims 'due to lethargy within some sections'.

Mr. Gunatilake was addressing expatriates in London last Sunday at a gathering organized by the JVP's Committee in the United Kingdom. Mr. Gunatilaka said it was a fact that all the parties within the Alliance did not agree on every issue, but there were fundamental issues on which everybody agreed on and the "Rata Perata" agenda was based on this understanding.

He said the JVP within the government was committed to abide by the agreement made with the people of Sri Lanka who put it in power and nobody in the government had a moral right to change this agreement or work against it.

Explaining the reasons behind the difficulties in working within the government, he said that the current difficulties are the result of the struggle the JVP and some other parts of the government are going through to not let people with alternative agendas creep in.

He said that the country has shown its confidence in the JVP by voting it to Parliament with the highest numbers of preferential votes and added it will not let the people down.

Minister Sunil Handuneththi said the JVP is not planning to leave the government specially since the JVP was in the forefront in creating it, and what the UFPA set out to do still not complete.

"If any persons must leave the government, it should be those people who do not work according to the UFPA manifesto", he said. He said that if not for the creation of the UFPA government, the separatists would have come much nearer to their goal of dividing the nation along ethnic lines.

The two JVP MPs were on a short visit to Britain with a Sri Lankan Parliamentary delegation visiting the British Parliament.

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