UPFA candidates clash in Nuwara Eliya

 Monday, 19 August 2013 

Digambaran and Thondaman clash in Kotagala

Supporters of Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) clashed with those supporting National Workers Union (NWU,) both constituent parties of United Peoples Freedom Alliance at Commercial Junction, Kotagala today (August 19.) 14 vehicles have been damaged and several individuals have been injured.
MPs P Digambaram and P Rajadurei (NWU) were traveling to Hatton from Nuwara Eliya in a convoy of vehicles when supporters Minister Arumugam Thondaman attacked them. Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) observes that this is the most serious election related instance of violence in Nuwara Eliya.

Rajadurei, who recently resigned from the CWC, joined the NWU yesterday. With this, instances of election related violence rises to nine.