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  • Muslim Congress will not run on PA ticket at future PC polls
    Ashraff condemns NWPC elections as a sham
    Minister urges national unity
    Ports Minister M.H.M. Ashraff condemned last week’s Wayamba Provincial Council election as a "sham" and said that it had caused serious problems between the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) which he leads and President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s SLFP.

    Ashraff who said that he was happy in the circumstances that none of his party candidates have been returned to the NWPC - the SLMC fielded four candidates - wryly commented "we had to face still opposition from the SLFP and not the UNP."
JVP activists conducted a demonstration at Lipton Circus on Thursday condemning what they called the ‘ugly role’ the PA government played at the Wayamba polls and calling for a fresh election. Demonstrators alleged the government resorted to every imaginable polls-related violation ranging from murder to vote rigging to secure a victory which otherwise was not there. (Pic by Eranga Jayawardena)

 

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