INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The letter released to all district secretaries advising them to suspend accepting deposits from prospects for the upcoming local government
(LG) election has actually been recalled, the Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs - & Local Government states
Earlier today, in a video declaration, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa clarified a letter, signed by the ministerial secretary Neil
Bandara Hapuhinna, advising all district secretaries to stop accepting deposits for the LG election up until further notification, pursuant
to a choice taken by the Cabinet of Ministers.He implicated specific consultants and officials of the presidential secretariat of being
engaged in a national coup to hold off the city government election.Premadasa, knocking the attempts to postpone the election, gotten in
touch with the government not to play with individualss right to vote.Meanwhile, the Election Commission restated that it is the obligation
of district returning officers, who are designated as choose to make certain the deposits placed by the election candidates are accepted.The
letter, addressed to all district returning officers, was issued by the commissioner-general of the election body, Saman Sri Ratnayake.
