Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) yesterday said that duplicity of the JVP was demonstrated by its stand on the Jaffna and Batticaloa University admissions."They call themselves a political party which believes in being non racial, advocates multi ethnicity and calls for national unity but where the issue of Jaffna and Batticaloa universities is concerned they operate on ethnic and racial lines supporting separatism JHU stalwart Ven Ellawala Medananda thera said.

The JVP is doing all this to gain cheap political mileage and its stance towards this matter is affecting the national unity he said.

Where the Jaffna and Batticaloa universities are concerned there is a lot of injustice meted out to Sinhalese and not Tamils and Muslims, he said.

"Any student in this country has the right to study in any university in this country whatever the community they belong to but the Sinhalese are deprived of this right and they are being discriminated," Ven Medhananda said.

Anuruddha Pradeep, Senior Lecturer Political Science, Sri Jayewardenepura University said that though there are 100 vacancies at the Jaffna Universties only 70 students are admitted because those who obtain highest marks from the north get themselves admitted to universities in the south.

The balance 30 vacancies are filled by students from other areas who are invariably Sinhalese and they are being discriminated.

As a result their parents get their children to give up their university education due to fear that something untoward will happen to them bringing an abrupt end to their university education he said.

However there is no discrimination to Tamil and Muslim students in the Ruhuna or any other university in the south, he said.

The University Grants Commission decision that any student should have the right to study in any university in Sri Lanka is right he said but the so called JVP backed students rights groups are agitating against the UGC decision.

JHU spokesman Kamal Deshapriya said that today the universities in the said areas are like the uncleared areas in the country. He alleged that thousands of Sinhalese who lived in the North were either harassed or driven away by the Tamils and nobody is talking about it today.