JVP factions fighting to hold founder’s commemoration

Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) factions are readying to show their strength at the November Hero Commemoration that falls on November 13, JVP internal sources said.

JVP Somawansa Amarasinghe faction has reserved the normal venue for this event, Vihara Maha Devi, Open Air Theater in Colombo.

According to the sources the ambitious Premakumar Gunaratnam faction of the JVP that claims to be the majority has reserved Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium for the purpose.

However, latest reports say that the administration of the Stadium have informed the organizers that it cannot be given to the ceremony since it is needed for an affair of the Ministry of Sports on that day.

A spokesman of the faction told that they were now in difficulty to find a venue in Colombo that can accommodate a large crowd.

November Heroes Day of JVP commemorates the fallen founder and leader of the Marxist movement Rohana Wijeweera and others who were killed in the 1989 rebellion.

(Colombo Page)