Friday, January 28, 2011

450 Nominations Handed over For Forthcoming Local Elections Got Rejected

A total number of 450 nominations out of 2047 nominations handed over by the Political Parties yesterday(27th) for the forthcoming Local Government Elections were rejected according to the Elections Commissioner Mr.Dayananda Dishanayake.Out of the nominations received 1597 have been accepted by the Divisional Secretaries for 301 local government institutions Mr.Dishanayake has said.

The majority of the nominations rejected are from the Ampara District in Eastern Province as out of 164 nominations presented 48 were rejected which 43 were from Independent Groups.

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