Gota to plunder 42000 votes of gramaarakshaka (civil force) officers: illegally instructs Rear admiral Peiris

(Lanka-e-News- 16.Dec.2014, 7.30PM) Rear admiral Ananda Peiris , the commanding officer in charge of the gramaraksha niladharis (civil security officers ) had summoned all these officers Islandwide (42000 in number) to come to their forces headquarters in Colombo and cast postal votes on 22,23 and 24 th December 2014 instead of casting the votes in their electorates.

Most of these officers are not in the permanent cadre and are therefore in fear of losing their jobs. Exploiting their plights ,even for the elections meetings of MaRa they have been used to swell the crowds.

Gotabaya had instructed Ananda Peiris to enlist 4000 gramaraksha officers in civil attire for every meeting .

This summoning of these gramaarakshaka (village security) officers to Colombo and making them to compulsorily cast postal votes is an absolutely illegal order .In addition , Ananda Peiris had unlawfully told them in plain language brazenly that the votes shall be cast to their commander in chief , that is Mahinda Rajapakse , and none other. If and when the polling cards are examined later , and discovered that any gramaaraksha officer had voted against Mahinda , which he can easily detect , stern action will be taken against them , and they will be sacked from their jobs, Peiris had pointed out .

In the best interests of the country ,it is the duty of the Elections commissioner and the election monitors to pay special and urgent attention to these serious and grossly illegal instructions and actions of the Rear admiral acting on Gota’s instructions.

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by     (2014-12-16 14:45:28)