K’gala district fields highest number of candidates :
Elections for Central, Northern and North Western PCs on Sept. 21
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya fixed
September 21 as the date for the elections for Central, Northern and
North Western Provincial Councils as the filing of nominations were
closed at 12 noon on Thursday (August 1) after the District Returning
officers accepted 201 nominations lists from recognised political
parties and Independent groups in 10 districts.
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Nominations for PC elections close
The Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya fixed
September 21 as the date for the elections for the Central, Northern and
North Western Provincial Councils as the filing of nominations were
closed at 12 noon on Thursday (August 1) after the District Returning
Officers accepted 201 nomination lists from recognised political parties
and Independent groups in 10 districts.
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Infighting drove me back to SLFP - Former UNP MP Dayasiri
Jayasekara
One conjures up the image of a “Sonduru Minisa” in
the politician Dayasiri Jayasekara. Suave but forthright, in pithy
Sinhala he confessed that the “kepilla” within the UNP forced him back
to his political “Maha Gedara”, the SLFP. Despite the heat and vitriols
of politics,
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