National Liberation Front ජාතික විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ | |
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Abbreviation | JVP/NLF |
Founder | K. M. P. Rajaratne |
Founded | 1957 |
Dissolved | 1965 |
Merged into | United National Party |
Headquarters | Polonnaruwa |
Ideology | Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism Corporatism |
Political position | Far-right |
Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; National Liberation Front) was a political party formed in 1957 by the K. M. P. Rajaratne and his wife, Kusuma Rajaratne.[1] The JVP received support from local businesses, and anti-Tamil riots were extreme in villages in which it was active.