When the SLFP led alliance of UPFA won the elections in 2004 with support of the JVP, Bandaranaike became Minister of Tourism, Industry and Investment in the new government.
As the chief organizer of this campaign, which was largely steered by the JVP, thousands of university and other students demonstrated on the streets.
Currently some observers note that Sri Lankan political parties such as JHU and JVP adhere to a policy of political Sinhalisation process.
Guruge was assassinated in 1989 by the JVP, whose uneducated youth squad had threatened him the week before.
News photographer Yathurshan Premachchandran was attacked by activists from the nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party on 23 August 2005 as he covered a JVP demonstration in front of Fort Railway Station, Colombo.
Don Upatissa Gamanayake alias Dias Mudalali (1948-1989) was the deputy leader of the Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during the 1987-89 insurrection.
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Not a prominent figure during the JVP’s 1971 insurrection, Gamanayake emerged as a leader only after the releasing of the JVP detainees in 1977.