By Dasun Edirisinghe- April 28, 2014
The JVP yesterday threatened to block proposed luxury hotels with gaming facilities, even though relevant regulations had been approved by Parliament last week.
Addressing a media conference at the party head office in Pelawatte, JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath said that his party would mobilise people against the implementation of the casino projects.
Herath said that 52 ruling party MPs had either absented themselves or voted against the government move to set up foreign casinos.
Herath said that it was the first time after 2010 that the government had failed to muster a two-thirds majority for a Bill.
The Gampaha District MP said that the government MPs too were against casinos, but some of them had lacked the courage to vote against them, but Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera had demonstrated that he had a backbone by voting against the government move.
Herath said the JVP had decided to do everything in its power to scuttle the government plans to build a black economy dependent on casino etc.
