The first day of postal voting for the Local Government elections took place in several centres across the country today.
A total of 648,495 postal vote applications have been accepted by the Election Commission.
Postal voting will be taking place on April 25,28 and 29 the as well.
Election monitoring groups said that the number who registered for postal voting was less than the numbers who registered to vote at the Presidential election and Parliamentary elections.
Meanwhile reports from the provinces said that the first day of the election had gone off without incidents.
District Government President and District Election Returning Officer Jasrina Muralitharan said that postal voting in the Batticaloa district took place in a very peaceful manner on the first day.
“Voting took place in all departments and police stations in the Batticaloa district starting at 8.30 am. Government employees participated in voting at the new district secretariat, regional secretariats, zonal education offices, and police stations,” the District Secretary said.
In Batticaloa, 11,554 government employees in the district are eligible to vote.
By Deva Athiran
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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