Government preparing to plunder votes to avoid crushing defeat– JVP

Lanka Truth 19th August, 2008. 05.12 PM

Amidst the disadvantageous situation it is facing in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa PC elections the government has deployed violence and is preparing to plunder the votes of the people states the JVP.

Mr. Chameera Koswatte, chief ministerial candidate of the JVP for Sabaragamuwa Province speaking at a media meeting organized by the JVP to apprise the media regarding the latest position of the PC elections said the presumptions that the government could win the elections have been shattered by now.

Speaking further he said, "In spite of the government engages in a corrupt exercise of using its powers to utilize state properties, vehicles and officials in its election campaign, it has totally failed in its propaganda activities. In such a situation the government has no other alternative but to deploy violence and engage in a plunder of votes.

The rest houses, circuit bungalows and official quarters for state officials have been reserved and thugs are being deployed. They are using all the state power they could use. If the government is convinced that they could win elections by violence the threat of launching violence in every future election exists. 

It is the responsibility of all those who cherish democracy to defeat this trend. For this not only the people in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces but also in other areas of the country should come forward."

Chief ministerial candidate of North Central Province Wasanthe Samarasinghe and leader of the group of JVP candidates for Kegalle District Mahinda Jayasinghe also participated.