The invitation to join the National People's Power Alliance, led by the Sri Lankan JVP, was accepted by India. When the leaders come to India, it will be the talk of the town. Three distinct notions have emerged from this call and trip. First, the JVP-supporting party is emphasizing that India is reaching out to the Sri Lankan JVP for a conversation because it is a strong contender for the upcoming presidential election. Second, some see the invitation and subsequent visit as a diplomatic win for India. Third, the JVP changed its policy as a result of its anti-Indian visit to India. But the new trend is hardly shocking to anybody who have been following the JVP over the past fifty years.
Like other major political parties, the JVP in Sri Lanka practices crooked politics. It has repeatedly demonstrated its political opportunism. This visit was just another example of their opulent, devious behavior.
The JVP of Sri Lanka in the late 1960s. "Indian expansionism" was a clever political ploy to appeal to particular youth demographics. 'Indian Expansion' was the most forceful class in their renowned five-class series of classes (bandi bhaga). It had a profound effect on the young Sinhalese in rural Sri Lanka. "Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka" is the topic of this Bandi Bhaga's first lesson. 'Indian Expansion' was the topic of an adjacent second class.
It persuaded the young people by highlighting a number of indicators that India poses a persistent danger to Sri Lanka. There were worries specifically that India's close proximity to Sri Lanka posed a constant threat. The youth of Sinhalese were taught by the Sri Lankan JVP that India, which was barely 20 miles distant, might easily engulf Sri Lanka at any point.
The Indian threat also involved the deployment of Tamil plantation laborers, who were of Indian descent and lived in Sri Lanka. In contrast to Sinhalese laborers in Colombo, their data indicated that Tamil plantation workers of Indian descent belonged to a privileged class.
"M. G. Ramachandran, the hero of Tamil Nadu Tamil cinema, was born in Sri Lankan tea plantations and is currently the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is the savior of the Malayan Tamil workers." Plantation workers in Sri Lanka had pictures of Ramachandran hanging in their lion rooms, according to J.V.P. Propagandized in their lessons. This made many hate the Tamils who live in the hills. Claiming to be fighting against Indian expansionism, the Sri Lankan JVP took action against the country's Indian-origin population in 1971. This was specifically directed towards Indian Tamil traders and hill Tamil plantation laborers.
Since 1988, the JVP has murdered and killed Indian businesses and left-wing figures who backed the provincial council, claiming they were planning to act against the peace deal between Sri Lanka and India. Large-scale enterprises producing tea were destroyed by fire. Many plantation workers had their national identity cards confiscated and destroyed by the Sri Lankan JVP.
Generally, a provincial council serves as a vehicle for transferring authority to the provinces. Sri Lanka was forced to adopt a system that did not in any way fulfill the national aspirations of the Tamil people and did not provide any special accommodations for the mountainous Tamil population or the Muslims, who were despised by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. After opposing it in 1987, the Sri Lankan JVP ran and won a large number of seats in the Provincial Council elections that were held outside of the North and East. Nevertheless, the JVP resisted attempts to re-implement it in the North and East. strongly disagreed.
The JVP of Sri Lanka was against giving minorities even a small amount of authority in the name of India. The bourgeoisie in India had no problem with monopolizing the petroleum trade with Sri Lanka. The planned building of a thermal power station in Sampur in Trincomalee, east of Sri Lanka, has not drawn opposition from India. India's purchase of oilfields close to the Trincomalee port has not elicited any opposition from Sri Lanka.
He also didn't object to India taking the lead in Sri Lanka's tea industry. The media's devaluation of Indian cinema culture is not in opposition to the Sri Lankan people's degradation. India is not against private industry dominating the car, medical, and education sectors. Sethu was not against the project in the water.
In light of this, Sri Lanka ought to interpret JVP's trip to India. Sri Lankan JVP will adjust its stance towards India if it has altered. To be precise. They ought to answer for what they did in the name of Indian resistance, but at the same time. Official records state that between 1987 and 1989, the Sri Lankan JVP killed 6,577 individuals. They also damaged public property owned by the government. Of these, 16 E.B.O.S. and 613 B.O.S. buses. Depots, 16 railroads, 73 tea plants, 680 post offices, and 8 schools are all part of it. Who is going to be accountable for these devastations?
The JVP in Sri Lanka cannot conduct people's politics in the absence of accountability for its history. It is ludicrous to suggest that the JVP in Sri Lanka has a strong chance of winning the elections. The popularity of the Sri Lankan JVP cannot be disputed. However, we have to realize that they have no bearing on election results. Therefore, based on the number of people attending the meetings, the JVP in Sri Lanka was predicted to win at least 15 seats in the most recent parliamentary election campaigns. It did, however, win two seats and an extra spot on the national list. This is how politics really work in Sri Lanka. The aspirations of Anura Kumara Disanayake and the JPs in Sri Lanka to become the country's next president were not realized.
The freedom to dream is unassailable. However, it is untrue to say that they are hanging from the papaya tree in protest of injustice.
For those who were taken aback by the JVP's travel to India, there is something to say. There has been a perception that there hasn't been much communication between the JVPs of Sri Lanka and India. That is untrue, though. In one of his publications, Lionel Bobage, the former general secretary of the Sri Lankan JVP, states:
We have had positive relations with the Indian High Commission ever since the 1970s. When Narasimha Rao came to Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, Rohana Wijeweera and I went to see him. Somavansa Amarasinghe left the nation after voicing strong opposition to India and calling for a boycott of Indian products.
India carried out the facilitation. He traveled overseas via India.
This is a crucial confession. Opportunistic is the Sri Lankan JVP's stance to India. The wellbeing of the populace or the country is not its goal. The JVP of Sri Lanka, which has long been critical of the West. He has been making frequent trips to Western embassies. The interactions have occurred throughout the previous few decades, but they have remained private. According to the Sri Lankan JVP, they would soon enter public space. You really don't want to, that much is true.
Meetings should now be held in public. since dye bleaching is about to happen. According to recent reports, Adani, an Indian company, plans to run three airports in Sri Lanka. How does JVP feel about this?
JVP in Sri Lanka Regarding the ethnic issue and the economic crisis, it is unable to devise a solution or a policy. It still rejects Muslims, Tamil hill people, and Tamils as nationalities. In Sri Lankan politics, this decadent political opportunism is a novel concept.