Sri Lanka, Feb. 10 -- When Opposition Leader, Sajith Premadasa criticized the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) citing a clause in the latter's "Policy Declaration" published in 1977 about confiscating "means of production" belonged to private institutions, the leader of the JVP and the National People's Power (NPP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake advised him to get himself updated as it was a document published about half a century ago when there was a socialist bloc of countries in the world.

He might tell almost the same to those who now remind of the JVP's old theory "Indian Expansionism" against the backdrop of the NPP leaders' visit to the Indian Capital on an invitation by the Indian Government this week.

The JVP is a party that indoctri...