JVP gives blunt no to joining any interim govt.

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday said that his party would turn down the invitation by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to form an all-party interim government.

Addressing the media at the party headquarters in Pelawatte, Dissanayake said that his party had decided to refuse accepting Cabinet Ministerial posts offered by the President.

“The solution for the current crisis is not joining with the President or the Prime Minister to form an interim, short-term, care-taker or an all-party government. To solve the current crisis President Gotabaya Rajapaksa must tender his resignation, first. Thereafter, we can introduce a system to manage this crisis. Then an election can be held,” he said.

Dissanayake said that people had the right understanding of those who had swindled public funds in the guise of governing and with such a loss the JVP would never stand in line. “There is a wave of public protests countrywide that came up spontaneously because people have realised that the time has come to send the corrupt lot home. They will no longer tolerate any form of government comprising the same bunch of thieves and swindlers. Today, the people go and surround the houses of those responsible for this crisis. We are ready to join them in their struggle and against the suppressive laws introduced by the government against public uprising.

“We do not think that the government can fool the people with its tricks again. Cabinet of Ministers resigned at midnight on Sunday and by Monday noon some of them had been reappointed. If the government thinks that they can fool the people with this kind of drama, they are mistaken and their moves are an insult to people’s awareness,” he said.