Government ask Douglas to send people to court against Northern polls
Tuesday, 02 July 2013
Minister Douglas Devananda it is learnt is trying to send a group of his supporters to file a fundamental rights violation petition before the Supreme Court on behald of the govrnment. The petition is to state that the people’s fundamental rights have been violated by trying to hold Northern Provincial Council election without holding local government elections to Puthukuduirippu and Muhudibadapattu claiming that landmine clearance operations have prevented the resettlement of people.
The Wayamba and Central provincial councils are to be dissolved on the 4th and the Elections Commissioner is to issue the gazette announcing election to the two provincial councils and the Northern Provincial Council within three days from the dissolution. Nominations are to be called three weeks after the gazette notification and the elections are to be held between 5-8 weeks after handing nominations. Therefore, provincial council elections are likely to be held on September 21st or 28th.
The government is to carry this entire process in order to please India. An envoy of the Indian government, National Security Advisor, Shivshanker Menon is to visit Sri Lanka shortly to discuss these issues and Minister Basil Rajapaksa is to visit India to explain matters to the Indian government.
When the elections Commissioner calls for nominations for the provincial council elections, Devananda’s party members who were to contest at the local government elections in Puthukuduirippu and Muhudibadapattu are to file a petition against the failure to hold local government elections prior to the provincial council election.
The government is to carry this entire process in order to please India. An envoy of the Indian government, National Security Advisor, Shivshanker Menon is to visit Sri Lanka shortly to discuss these issues and Minister Basil Rajapaksa is to visit India to explain matters to the Indian government.
When the elections Commissioner calls for nominations for the provincial council elections, Devananda’s party members who were to contest at the local government elections in Puthukuduirippu and Muhudibadapattu are to file a petition against the failure to hold local government elections prior to the provincial council election.
Sinhala leftist criticizing government repression overlooks Tamils’ struggle
[TamilNet, Monday, 01 July 2013, 23:26 GMT]The Sri Lankan government’s real concern at the moment is “the threat of widespread social unrest and an uprising by workers, youth and poor”, writes Sinhala leftist K. Ratnayake in article published on the Trotskyite World Socialist Web Site on Monday. Referring largely to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s “Sri Lanka’s National Security Concerns” lecture at the Kotelawala Defence University in early June, the author claims that “The defence minister’s reference to a renewed “terrorist” threat is aimed at whipping up anti-Tamil communalism to divide the emerging struggles of the working class.” However, an alternative politics Eezham Tamil activist from Jaffna questions whether Mr. Ratnayake, who overlooks the Tamils’ struggle for sovereignty resisting genocidal occupation of their homeland by the GoSL, is consciously or unconsciously defending the state structure that he claims to criticize.
