(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 08, 7.10 PM)
JVP internal crisis came to the surface today (08) with the special statement made by the JVP Parliamentary Group Leader
Wimal Weerawansa and a group of MPs held a press conference this evening in Colombo.
MP Piyasiri Wijenayaka and ten other MPs had called the press briefing to mark the protest against the removal of Wimal Weerawansa. But MP Ranaweera Pathirana who participated in it, began to express contradictory views rationalizing the stand of the party leadership creating a pandemonium as the media questioned about the paradox.
A police team led by a Senior Superintendent of Police came to the scene of press conference to accompany MP Ranaweera Pathirana safely back to the party headquarters. When media enquired who sent police, they said that MP Anura Kumara Disanayaka requested it.
Nandana Gunethileka says `He further said that the breakaway has shocked the JVP and such thing never occurred in the party history.`