Petitions rejected regarding nominations ! - UNP, LSSP and Independent Group

The Court of Appeal has decided to reject 3 petitions filed against the rejection of nomination papers. Court stated that the petitions will be rejected as there is no clear reason to take them up for hearing.


The petitions filed were by the United National Party for the Eravur Pradeshiya Sabha, by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party for the Kuchchaveli Pradeshiya Sabha and by an independent group for the Kanthale Pradeshiya Sabha.


The verdict was issued today (March 14) by Judges Sathya Hettige, President of the Court of Appeal and Upali Abeyratne.


But Pradeshiya Sabha's where UPFA Filed petitions were postphoned in most cases. This does questions about the impartiality of the decisions made but everything has a limit. Most in Sri Lanka gets the feeling that end of Dictator Percy Mahinda's Regime is very much closer than expected ( It is likely that, he too will be chased out like some middle east dictators ).  

UPFA FILES 20 PETITIONS !

The UPFA today filed 20 petitions at the Court of Appeals against the rejection of nomination papers presented for the Local Government election which will be in May 17th. petitions was submitted by UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha. Several Officials including the Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake have been named as respondents.

The petitions have been filed for Local Government institutions such as Kilinochchi, Valikamam, Jaffna, Point Pedro, Karainagar, Delft Island, Chavakachcheri Municipal Councils and Velanai Pradeshiya Sabha.The petitions state that the respective District Secretaries had rejected the nomination papers stating errors in the Tamil translations presented with the nominations. According to the translation, "Front" in tamil was used instead of stating as "allience". (UPFA is a Allience not a Front according to the way it's written)


The decision taken to reject these nomination papers is unlawful the General Secretary Susil Premajayantha points out and therefore requests the Appeal Court to order the Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayaka to re-accept the nominations.