Anura Kumara Dissanayake, presidential candidate of the opposition Nationwide Individuals’s Energy political celebration. File | Picture credit score: AP
The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) celebration on Monday (September 16, 2024) vowed to scrap the Adani Group’s wind energy venture in Sri Lanka if elected within the presidential election scheduled for the weekend.
JVP chief Anura Kumara Dissanayake, presidential candidate of the broader Nationwide Individuals’s Energy (NPP) entrance, instructed a political speak present right here that they’d scrap the invoice.
Requested if the venture posed a menace to the island nation’s power sovereignty, Dissanayake stated: “Sure. We will certainly cancel it as a result of it threatens our power sovereignty.” The JVP, which led a bloody anti-Indian revolt within the island nation between 1987 and 1990 following India’s direct intervention in Sri Lanka’s civil warfare by way of the Indo-Lanka Peace Settlement, is believed to be main in unofficial polls forward of the September 21 election.
The JVP known as the Indo-Lanka Accord a betrayal of the nation and killed the then ruling celebration members, their supporters and different political activists who supported the pact signed between the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and JR Jayewardena, the President of Sri Lanka on the time.
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The Adani Group has confronted a elementary rights litigation in Sri Lanka’s Supreme Courtroom after it gained approval for the proposed development of a wind energy venture within the Mannar and Pooneryn areas within the northeast of the island nation.
The Adani Group will make investments over $440 million in a 20-year deal to develop 484 megawatts of wind energy within the area.
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The petitioners have raised environmental considerations and lack of transparency within the bidding course of for granting the nod to Adani Inexperienced Vitality.
The petitioners have additionally argued that the agreed tariff of $0.0826 per kWh would signify a loss to Sri Lanka and ought to be lowered to $0.005 per kWh.
Printed – September 16, 2024 01:26 pm IST
