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UPFA complains to Elections Commissioner:

UNF plans to sabotage polls

United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) General Secretary Susil Premajayantha has alerted the Elections Commissioner to take due note of information from reliable sources that the United National Front (UNF) is orchestrating disruptive action to prevent a free and fair election on April 2.

Storming election centres on the day of the election, employing persons dressed in uniforms similar to Army uniforms to visit parents of soldiers and create terror in their minds by saying that the war will start if the Freedom Alliance comes to power, organising assaults on Jathika Hela Urumaya candidates and putting the blame on JVP supporters attempting to win the sympathy of voters by either organising physical violence on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe or by organising rumours to that effect in the wake of the General Election and engaging either LTTE members or individuals dressed in LTTE combat uniforms to cause havoc during the elections period were enumerated in Susil Premajayantha's letter to the Elections Commissioner as some of the tactics the UNF is alleged to have organised for this purpose.

The letter further pointed out that the recent allegation by Hela Urumaya Secretary Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera that the JVP was planning to assassinate him, the recent detection of loads of smuggled army uniform material and the reports of sewing of Army uniforms on a large scale, as matters worth serious consideration in this connection.

Susil Premajayantha's letter requested the Elections Commissioner to consider this situation as a serious threat to the security of the people as well as to the conduct of a free and fair election and urged him to seek the assistance of the police and the Army by exercising optimum powers vested in him.

Meanwhile, JVP General Secretary Tylvin Silva has written to the Election Commissioner requesting him to afford an opportunity for those who were deprived of casting their postal vote to cast their postal vote before April 02.

Of the 2,86,624 applicants for postal voting almost half have been deprived of the opportunity to vote due to shortcomings on the part of the officials involved. Of this number, more than 20,000 were members of the Armed Forces and the police.

According to Army Spokesman Colonel Sumedha Perera, of the 52,585 Army personnel who applied for postal voting 16,435 have not received even an acknowledgment.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Lionel Balagalla has brought this situation to the notice of the Election Commissioner, stated the JVP Secretary General's letter to the Election Commissioner.

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