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UNP
urges govt. to postpone PC polls
Party
says A/L exam students will be affected
By
Kushali Atukorale
The main opposition United National Party yesterday called
on the government to postpone the Provincial Council elections
for Sabaragamuwa and the North Central Province by two weeks,
so as not to disrupt the Advance Level Examinations scheduled
for August.
Addressing media personnel at a news conference yesterday,
UNP MP P. Harrison said the government should look into postponing
the poll for the sake of the children of this country and
their future.
“The majority of the advance level students are eagerly
waiting to sit the examination and seek university entrance.
But the government has shattered their dreams by postponing
the exam by two days. God knows for how long they will keep
on extending the dates. Most of the students sitting this
exam from the North Central Province are from the border villagers
which are in a constant state of unrest,” the MP said.
He also raised the question as to why all provincial councils
could not have been dissolved together, in order to really
check the pulse of the electorate throughout the island.
“People did not ask for an election. The main motive
of the government to hold such elections on and off, is to
gloss over their unpopularity which has been growing, and
divert the attention of the people,” he added.
“The tenure of the Sabaragamuwa and North Central Provincial
Councils is not yet over. The government is saying that they
cannot give farmers a fertilizer subsidy but are keen to spend
millions on an election that nobody asked for,” Harrison
charged.
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