More than 300 farmer families from five villages in the Polonnaruwa district and about 80 families from a village in the Anuradhapura district have decided to boycott the upcoming North Central Provincial Council elections unless they are given access to electricity.
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| A farmer at Bakamuna points to a poster |
In the Polonnaruwa district farmers from Bakamuna, Yaya 16, 17 & 18, Dambulukelegama and Puwakgaha Ulpotha have been on a hunger strike since June 29, while posters calling for the boycott of elections unless electricity was provided, have sprung up in the village of Akkara seeya in the Kekirawa electorate of the Anuradhapura district.
Villagers of Bakamuna say they will not give up their fast until they are provided with electricity.
M.A S Weerasuriya, a residentsaid any politician who would look into their demand favourably would be assured of at least 2500 preferential votes from the five villages in the Polonnaruwa district.
Meanwhile yesterday three farmers who were on the hunder strike had been hospitalised. | 
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