A Lanka-e-News investigation revealed that a gang of masked individuals abducted six persons from Padiththanai village. The relatives of the victims have not lodged complaints in police since they identified the gang that was involved in the abduction. It is learnt that the two parties are in an attempt to resolve the issue among themselves.
Reportedly, the abduction victims are UNP supporters.
Media Committee Chief Lakshman Kiriella issuing a statement on the Eastern Provincial Council election says that the TMVP (Pillaiyan Group), PLOTE, EPDP and EPRLF are often engaged in election campaigning with arms they carry with indirect support of state security forces and police. He said that this was one factors that a fair election could not be expected in the Eastern Province.
Reportedly, the abduction victims are UNP supporters.
Media Committee Chief Lakshman Kiriella issuing a statement on the Eastern Provincial Council election says that the TMVP (Pillaiyan Group), PLOTE, EPDP and EPRLF are often engaged in election campaigning with arms they carry with indirect support of state security forces and police. He said that this was one factors that a fair election could not be expected in the Eastern Province.
Ten thousand polling cards in the possession of a woman
Mr. Kiriella said that Pillaiyan Group was misusing power by engaging in state security affairs while contesting the election as a political party. He said that the armed TMVP cadres manned all the Army checkpoints in Kalmunai, Batticaloa and Trincomalee areas. UNP pointed out that this violated the Article 12 of the constitution that guarantees equality of all citizens before law. UNP emphasized that this group needed to be removed from state security affairs immediately.
Pointing to the indistinct statistics of tsunami affected, Mr. Kiriella said that it would make way for vote rigging unless the figures of the displaced persons and the procedure made for them to verify their identity were not reported to the election authorities.
UNP MP Kiriella said that the Chairman of Akkaraipaththu Pradeshiya Sabha is using Manmunai Al Shamaz school for election campaigning while United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) candidate Hisbulla uses the upstairs of Eravur post office and the Ministers were using almost all the circuit bungalows of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) for election propaganda work.
Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Channel Eye broadcast a report on the election malpractices of the state officials who were using state vehicles for election campaigning. Village Officers were summoned in groups often to be deployed in propaganda work. Polling cards are in the possession of outsiders and on April 23, police took 10,000 such polling cards into custody from the possession of a woman.
Meanwhile, on April 26 around 10.30 PM, a group of about 10 persons entered the residence of the UNP Pradeshiya Sabha MP Abdul Majeed and warned him to keep away from election propaganda.
UNP says that the government was proving that it was not ready to hold a free and fair election since it was providing indirect support to all those violence.
Pointing to the indistinct statistics of tsunami affected, Mr. Kiriella said that it would make way for vote rigging unless the figures of the displaced persons and the procedure made for them to verify their identity were not reported to the election authorities.
UNP MP Kiriella said that the Chairman of Akkaraipaththu Pradeshiya Sabha is using Manmunai Al Shamaz school for election campaigning while United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) candidate Hisbulla uses the upstairs of Eravur post office and the Ministers were using almost all the circuit bungalows of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) for election propaganda work.
Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Channel Eye broadcast a report on the election malpractices of the state officials who were using state vehicles for election campaigning. Village Officers were summoned in groups often to be deployed in propaganda work. Polling cards are in the possession of outsiders and on April 23, police took 10,000 such polling cards into custody from the possession of a woman.
Meanwhile, on April 26 around 10.30 PM, a group of about 10 persons entered the residence of the UNP Pradeshiya Sabha MP Abdul Majeed and warned him to keep away from election propaganda.
UNP says that the government was proving that it was not ready to hold a free and fair election since it was providing indirect support to all those violence.
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