Batticaloa Local Polls:

Good turnout for postal voting

Rafik JALALDEEN

BATTICALOA: Over 70 per cent of postal voters turned up yesterday to elect their representatives to the Batticaloa district local bodies.

The postal voting had taken place without any major incident. Assistant Elections Commissioner of Batticaloa district T. Krishnandalingam said most postal voters cast their votes with enthusiasm.

“We have received around 650 postal vote packs out of 934 till end of the day. This counts for around 70 percent of the postal votes so far,” he added.

He reiterated that the postal vote marking proceeded without violence. Krishnandalingam pointed out that a special training class will be held today for selected 300 Senior Proceeding Officers. The SPOS will acquire efficient knowledge and skills to function competently at 285 polling centres.

Meanwhile, 10 more polling centres will be set up at Internally Displaced People (IDP) centres in the Batticaloa district.

“We have arranged 10 more polling centres at the IDP centres in addition to the existing 285 polling centres. Specially trained SPOs will also carry out their activities at the IDP centres during the election,” Krishnandalingam said.