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by Jatila Karawita

Former JVP MP Wimal Weerawansa addressing a press conference at Hotel Nippon yesterday, challenged the Sunday Leader, Sunday Times, Ravaya newspapers and TNL TV to air the interviews recorded with sprint queen Susanthika Jayasinghe who had publicly traded charges of sexual molestation by former PA MP S. B. Dissanayake in the present political atmosphere.

He asked TNL TV whether they could disclose the truth behind the bogus World Tel deal involving S. B. Dissanayake and the palatial residence built by him in the Hanguranketha electorate, in the light of his recent cross over to the UNP.

He also challenged the same TV station to air the news relating to how former PA MP Mahinda Wijesekera had built a luxurious house in Colombo worth over Rs. 30 million, in addition to several other misdeeds committed by him in relation to the Sinharaja Forest.

Wimal Weerawansa said that they as JVPers were quite pleased to find that the UNP which was full of big time business 'sharks' and underworld characters, had emerged as their sole political rival in the lead up to the December hustings instead of the SLFP led PA and said that they would launch their election campaign with the aim of burying the UNP for the good of the nation at the next Parliament.

He advised the people not to fall prey to such false third grade allegations made against the JVP by so-called free media journalists, since they were making such bizarre insinuations as the UNP was furious at having their day dreams of coming to power severely disrupted due to the progressive march of the JVP.

Weerawansa categorically denied a news story in yesterday's newspapers as well as a story aired by a private TV channel which said that the JVP would contest the polls in certain districts with the support of the Peoples Alliance.

"The JVP will contest all the districts under the symbol of the Bell and at no stage will we become the stooge of the PA or the UNP " added the JVP Propaganda Secretary.

JVP General Secretary Tylwin Silva called on the Sunday Leader, Sunday Times, and Ravaya newspapers to prove beyond all doubts that JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa was maintaining an illegal bank account worth millions of rupees along with Ruwan Ferdinandesz at the Peoples Bank branch at Nugegoda.

He said if these rotten allegations were proved beyond any doubt then he would dissolve the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna forthwith. He further said that legal action would be instituted against the concerned newspapers to bring to book the 'so-called' free media journalists with allegiance to the UNP.

Weerawansa said that if the above allegations were proved beyond all doubt he would resign from the party post.

The Sunday Leader, Sunday Times and the Ravaya newspapers had launched a new scheme to sling mud at the JVP at the behest of the United National Party, in the run up to the December snap elections, by distorting the truth. He called on the independent media institutions to unmask the real people behind the cowardly allegations directed at the JVP.

Tylvin Silva acknowledged there was an individual by the name of Ruwan Ferdinandesz as their Financial Secretary but once he had left the party in 1994 they had not bothered to find out about his whereabouts.

"Since 1995 the above named account has been controlled by the General Secretary, Propaganda Secretary, and the Finance Secretary of the JVP. That is by myself, Wimal Weerawansa and Nandana Gunathileke respectively", he explained.

He stressed that the money taken from the account had never been used to bribe the MP's for crossing-over, contracting underworld gangs or to print mud-slinging posters.

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