In a press conference held by the Joint Opposition in Borella N.M. Perera hall yesterday, Member of Parliament Dullas Alahapperuma accused the Government of breaking the promises given to hold Local Government Election seven times . He went on to the state , that the Joint Opposition had earlier pointed out 10 days before , that the Minister in charge may go abroad and in such a situation, he should make acting arrangement to receive delimitation report . Delimitation report was to be handed over to the Minister yesterday, but he was abroad . By going abroad Minister can avoid acceptance of the report. News report said, as Tamil version of the report in respect of Jaffna , Killinochchi and Vavuniya districts were not completed , subject Ministry Secretary did not accept this report. But we received information that Tamil translation was completed day before yesterday night. Further, PM office issued a statement to the effect that the delimitation committee had requested allocation of time to submit the report o the Prime Minister. We understand no such request was made by the delimitation committee. Further, there is no provision in law to hand over the report to the Prime Minister.
Minister Faizer Mustafa said earlier, that once he received the report within two days it would be gazetted . Hence, JO expects amended report to be gazetted very soon. The Government is trying to send the report to the political parties on receipt of it and delay the Local Government Election. There is no need to send it to the political parties because representatives of political parties were included in the committee . Once it is gazetted official position is the responsibility of conducting the election goes to the independence commission . Hence, we request the independence election commission to conduct LG election without further delay.
Note: Report just received states , that the delimitation report will be submitted to the State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government,Priyankara Jayaratne today.
