The term of the Uva Provincial Council (PC) is set to expire at midnight tomorrow (Oct 8), making all nine provincial councils defunct in the country.
The Uva PC had functioned under five Governors and three Chief Ministers during its term of five years with the majority of the total 34 seats being won by the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
At the 2014 provincial council election, the UPFA had won 19 seats while the United National Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna had won 13 and two seats respectively.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
The former leader of the New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the New Left Front and well-known figure in left-wing politics in Sri Lanka, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, passed away at the age of 81.
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