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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
		The name MEP was first used for the electoral alliance led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party that won the 1956 elections.
		In a statement signed by the party’s leader Dinesh Gunawardena M.P. the MEP said the entire episode of handing over radio transmitters to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a serious violation of the laws of the land and the diplomatic norms by Norway and should be dealt with severely by the President.
		The current party called MEP was founded in 1959 by Philip Gunawardena and PH William Silva, on the basis of Gunawardena's previous party and founded on the principles of the earlier MEP.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mahajana-Eksath-Peramuna (832 words)

	Devolution of power leads to fragmentation of Lanka
		The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna condemns with utmost contempt the proposals which purport to be a solution to the problem of the North and East Provinces.
		It is pertinent to recall that the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna hand in hand with the then SLFP made a sustained effort to defeat the said move on a principled stand.
		The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna pointedly stated that our Defence Forces are sacrificing their lives to protect and uphold the unitary state of Sri Lanka and not to bring to birth a Federal State.
	www.spur.asn.au /devolution_of_power_leads_to_fragmentation.htm (1730 words)

	TamilNet: All party backing sought for war
		A proposal that all parties should unanimously resolve to defeat the Liberation Tigers was objected to by the Tamil United Liberation Front although the President was in agreement with this suggestion of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the Sinhala Mahasammata Bhoomiputra party.
		The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, a Sinhala nationalist party, proposed that all the parties present at the meeting should unanimously resolve to lend all their support to condemn and to defeat the Liberation Tigers.
		The MEP proposal was dropped in the face of objections from the Tamils.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=5036 (669 words)

	TamilNet: JVP for elections -Amarasingha
		Somawansa Amarasingha, said Thursday his party is for holding general election in Sri Lanka soon, addressing a massive public meeting of the new alliance between the JVP and President Kumaratunga's Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Colombo.
		Mr.Amarasinghe, addressing the maiden rally of the United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA), said all steps would be taken by the UPFA to defeat the United National Front (UNF) government at the next general election and to salvage the country from economic crisis and political chaos.
		MEP leader and parliamentarian Mr.Dinesh Gunawardene described the formation of the UPFA as a force that could salvage the country from the current destructive policy of the UNF.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=11084 (614 words)

	Lankalovers.com - NEWS SITE
		The creation of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP - Peoples Liberation Front) was the logical consequence to the obvious and long tested inability of the capitalist parties and the so-called leftist parties having their base in the upper middle class to solve the crises gripping our country.
		The capitalists and the so-called leftists have always resorted to various devious means to tarnish the image of our party and have dished out lies and slander regarding our party and its 30-year history.
		From this situation arose the need for a new political party to lead the working class who were deserted by the so-called leftist leaders, thus the birth of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
	www.lankalovers.com /whattheysay/p_jvp.shtml (463 words)

	Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) in a statement issued yesterday urged the government to
		The MEP joins hands with all patriotic sections of the country wedded to the democratic process
		MEP has consistently alerted the nation in and out of parliament even to the extent of undergoing
	www.spur.asn.au /attro/Ch1/1999/island_990922_C.htm (346 words)

	Sri Lanka - MSN Encarta
		The elections of 1956 swept the SLFP to power, and Bandaranaike headed a coalition government called the People’s United Front (Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, or MEP), comprising the SLFP and a section of the LSSP.
		However, it faced a severe economic crisis caused by balance of payments deficits, rising foreign debts, and an expensive social welfare and food subsidy program.
		In April 1971 a radical-left Sinhalese youth movement, the Janatha Vimukhti Peramuna (JVP), staged an insurrection to take over the government.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568352_11/Sri_Lanka.html (773 words)

	KillerSudoku.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the General Election of March 1960, the MEP obtained 10 parliamentary seats.
		There are two MEP representatives in the current parliament including one National list MP.
		Two representatives are Minister of Urban Development & Water Supply, Dinesh Gunawardena and the deputy speaker, Geethanjana Gunawardena.
	www.killersudoku.co.uk /title-Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna (205 words)

	Gulfnews: PA to elect new leader
		The showdown is to come in the form of a contest for the post of leader of the parliamentary opposition, which goes to them for obtaining 77 seats, the party with the second largest number of seats.
		The PA comprises a coalition of five parties – the Freedom Party (SLFP), the Trotskyite Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP),the Communist Party (CP), and the nationalist Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP).
		The SLFP, headed by President Chandrika Kumaratunga, being the major component of the alliance, will be most likely to nominate the new leader of the opposition.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/01/12/10/34926.html (334 words)

	Ethnic Conflict of Sri Lanka: Time Line - From Independence to 1999
		Mahajana Eksath Peramuna led by the SLFP is formed.
		Bandaranaike tears the pact amid demands and threats by a faction of Buddhist monks ("Eksath Bhikkhu Peramua") and Sinhalese chauvinists.
		Buddharakkhita who was the founder of the "Eksath Bhikku Peramuna" is accused of leading the conspiracy.
	www.ices.lk /sl_database/ethnic_conflict/time_line.shtml (2236 words)

	The Hindu : Miscellaneous / This Day That Age : dated April 13, 1956: New Premier of Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, leader of the victorious Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, was sworn in at noon in Colombo on April 12 before the Governor-General as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and External Affairs.
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike was born on January 8, 1899 in a family whose members had held high positions for generations.
		That year, he founded the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the nucleus of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna.
	www.hindu.com /2006/04/13/stories/2006041300111400.htm (347 words)

	The Fourth International-ch7
		Together with the Ceylonese Communist Party and a small, radical-appearing bourgeois organisation, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), the LSSP formed what was called the United Left Front.
		This organisation was well received by the Ceylonese masses and could have, were it not for the inadequacy of its programme, constituted the point of departure of an extra-parliamentary struggle for power.
		Failure to criticise publicly the opportunistic policy of its allies (the CP and the MEP).
	marx.org /history/etol/writers/frank/works/march/ch07.htm (10754 words)

	The Sunday Times Defence Column
		There are viable alternatives to the package and the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) has placed before the Parliamentary Select Committee its proposals.
		The MEP recognises the need for power-sharing at the centre such as through the Committee System provided for under the Donoughmore Constitution.
		The MEP is committed to a unitary system of government and does not subscribe to the legal fiction of "an indissoluble union of regions".
	lakdiva.org /suntimes/960804/let2.html (911 words)

	Chandrika's challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WHEN the People's Alliance (P.A.) coalition of President Chandrika Kumaratunga was re-elected to power in Sri Lanka in October 2000, the insufficient mandate made it necessary for her to tie up with two other parties outside the coalition to put together a parliamentary majority and form a government.
		If the coalition itself, made up as it is of disparate parties like the Sinhala hardline Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the pro-Indian Tamil Ceylon Workers' Congress and the leftist Lanka Sama Samaja Party, seemed fragile, its dependence on two other parties made it even more so, and pundits predicted an early collapse of the whole edifice.
		While the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with 10 seats refused to play ball, the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), with its strong views against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was the first to offer itself with its five members.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1814/18140530.htm (2233 words)

	LankaWeb News
		Amarasekera appealed to the genuine national forces to get together to fight the LTTE and Tamil racism in the country as it has got to be defeated to achieve real peace in the country.
		Dinesh Gunawardane, former Minister of Transport and Leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna though not a speaker at the meeting was seen in the audience listening to the speeches.
		Dr. Nalin De Silva who also spoke at the Mahaveli Center meeting said that W.J.M.Lokubandara of all the people introduced a bill that enabled the Commissioner of Elections to postpone local government elections in the parliament.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items02/240202-1.html (339 words)

	Confusion on accommodation in the House
		As a result Minister Dinesh Gunawardena of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and Mrs Ferial Ashroff of the National Joint Front have been accommodated in the rear.
		At this juncture, group leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Parliamentarian Mr Wimal Weerawansa questioned on what basis the people who strived for the victory of Mahinda Chintanaya have been pushed back while those who opposed the Chintanaya have been brought to the front row.
		In response the Speaker that he has acted based on the seniority of the members.
	www.lankatruth.com /full_story/2007/Feb/06/20070206_1.htm (390 words)

	LTTE PS: Communalists under one banner toll the death knell for peace
		The alliance formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has caused a growing sense of fear and anxiety among the Tamils.
		Being aware of the antagonism expressed by the constituents of the alliance towards the peace process, the international community interested in the build up of peace is concerned over the formation of this alliance.
		The communal political groups such as Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and Sihala Urumaya have also joined hands with this grand alliance.
	www.ltteps.org /?view=151&folder=2 (1029 words)

	Rediff on the NeT: Kumaratunga scores landslide win in Sri Lanka poll
		While the elections once again underscored the fact that the two-party system is well entrenched in the island with the PA and the UNP as the main players, observers said the success of the former extremist group, the Janata Vimukti Peramuna in winning a number of seats was a remarkable development.
		The results exploded the myth that any major Sinhala party, which came out with significant proposals to resolve the conflict, would suffer electorally as the majority community was opposed to any devolution of power, Tiruchelvam noted.
		On the contrary, he noted, that Sinhala nationalist parties like the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, which had contested the election on a plank of opposition to the devolution proposals, had been total rejected by the people.
	www.rediff.com /news/mar/22lanka.htm (644 words)

	Current Affairs
		The People’s Alliance (PA) together with the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) have decided to consult the Maha Sangha and other relevant independent organisations before passing any act which would affect the people, sources said.
		Speaking at the MEP District Conference, Party Leader, Dinesh Gunawardena said, the MEP had agreed with the PA on many instances in which both parties had often opposed some of the acts brought forward by the UNP which would have had an adverse impact on the people of the country.
		He said the people must take this opportunity to vote at the parliamentary elections to protect democracy, adding that this would be a decisive election for the people of the country.
	www.priu.gov.lk /news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200009/20000901PA_and_MEP.htm (139 words)

	hist
		The theme of the discussion was the leadership crisis facing the working class of Sri Lanka.
		The LSSP, which was allied with the capitalist SLFP or the CP, which tried in its turn to join the SLFP but was rejected or the MEP, which was running after the capitalist UNP, were no longer conscious of the needs of the working class and lacked the political will to guide the working class.
		Repeated betrayals of the ambitions of the working class due to political opportunism and the willful misguidance of the working class by the 'old left' leadership created among the people a marked disillusionment with left politics and allowed the capitalist UNP to later entrench itself among the workers via its own trade unions.
	www.jvpnet.com /hist.html (3681 words)

	Alliances of opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It all began when the dissension and disgruntlement in the ranks of the P.A. burst through and two of the coalition's key figures, as different from each other as chalk and cheese, the academic G.L. Peiris and the rough-and-ready S.B. Dissanayake, did a "cross-over" to the opposition United National Party (UNP).
		By then, the government, which together with the JVP had 119 MPs in the 225-member house, was already down to 110.
		A parliamentarian belonging to another ally, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, had walked out of the P.A. a day earlier.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1823/18230550.htm (1982 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Politics
		The Prime Minister's Office sources revealed that while the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and Jathika Hela Urumaya pledged support with conditions, most of other parties too had confirmed their support to the Premier to win the Presidential Election.
		According to the Prime Minister's media unit, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, National Unity Alliance, Eelam People's Democratic Party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Sri Lanka Communist Party, Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party, Sri Lanka Mahajana Party with several other small parties had agreed to support the SLFP candidate.
		They stressed that all the parties which were with them in the People's Alliance and the United People's Freedom Alliance would be for the victory of Mahinda Rajapakse.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/09/18/pol01.html (293 words)

	The Sunday Times - Special Assignment
		I told him that it was not only him but we were all responsible in forming the PA Government.
		The LSSP, the CP, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the CWC all played a big role.
		My challenge was since he claims he is strong why doesn't he contest on his own and get these eleven seats.
	lakdiva.org /suntimes/000827/spec.html (2799 words)

	Sri Lankan Politics in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(d) The Memorandum of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
		Item 1 of the proposal states - " The Unitary nature of the Sri Lankan Constitution be converted into a federal one."
		The member of Your Committee representing the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna did not agree to Item 1 of the Srinivasan Proposal.
	www.manthree.com /docs/1992_mangala_munasingha_report.htm (1361 words)

	Sri Lanka: Put human rights first during the elections - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared that without control of the defence forces he could no longer be responsible for continuing the peace process.
		On 20 January 2004 President Kumaratunga signed an agreement of cooperation between the main constituent of the People's Alliance (PA), the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; People's Liberation Front) to form the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
		Four more parties have since joined the UPFA including the Muslim National Unity Alliance (NUA), the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP; People's United Front), the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPLS) and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP; Lanka Equal Society Party).
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa370012004 (734 words)

	sri lanka assessment v4
		5.8.1 The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front) is a radical left wing party which in 1987 came out against the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.
		It began a campaign of strikes, attacks and killings of public officials and members of the police and army.
		Formed in 1990 and is a splinter group of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party.
	www.asylumlaw.org /docs/srilanka/ind99b_srilanka_ca.htm (17767 words)

	LankaWeb News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Professor Tissa Vitarana, Chairman All Party Representative Committee said that all political parties have now reached consensus that devolution of power as a means to the solution of the national problem in the country.
		He said the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) have now consented to have maximum devolution under our constitution
		Professor Vitharana then said, hence there is consensus of opinion among all parties regarding devolution of power.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items06/231106-1.html (716 words)

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