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Monday, February 05, 2024

JVP to make official visit to India

Sri Lanka's Marxist party to make official visit to India
PTI Last Updated 04 February 2024
COLOMBO: A delegation of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist communist party which led an anti-India campaign in 1987-90 against the Indo-Lanka Accord, will on Monday start on an official visit to India.

“The delegation of JVP, the largest party under the broad entity National People’s Power (NPP), is to leave Colombo tomorrow (Monday) for India on an official invitation of the Indian government," a statement from the party said.

The delegation to India comprises JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, senior legislator Vijitha Herath, Secretary Nihal Abeysinghe and executive committee member Prof Anil Jayantha, the statement said.



The Hindu

Sri Lanka's Marxist party JVP to make official visit to India The JVP has a checkered record having led two bloody rebellions in 1971 and 1987-90.

PTI Last Updated 04 February 2024

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