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JVP won’t join President’s team to India
The JVP has turned down an invitation by President Mahinda Rajapakse to accompany him on his state visit to India later this month.

President Rajapakse requested the JVP to send its leaders with him when he visited New Delhi on December 27 on his first visit overseas since becoming Head of State last month.

The JVP has told the President that it will allow him to conduct the country's foreign policy without its interference. Once vehemently anti-India under its founder Rohana Wijeweera, the JVP is now very much pro-India under the new leadership of Somawansa Amarasinghe.

The party has good relations with the Chinese Communist Party as well.

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