JO To Take Legal Action Against Postponing PC Polls

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has submitted a Cabinet paper proposing that the Provincial Council Election of all Provincial Councils should be held on one day and it should be after the election amendment bill passed i  the parliament. The Cabinet approved it yesterday.

On learning this new development, the joint opposition yesterday informed the Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya in writing that legal action would be taken if the elections were not conducted on time.

In the meantime former minister G.L. Peiris said, he had retained Romesh de Silva PC to represent him in Court with regard to this matter and informed through his lawyers, that the three PCs would stand dissolved by September/October in terms of Article 154 E of the Constitution