Some Politicians who are contesting for the forthcoming Parliamentary Election are illegally using around 300 state owned vehicles for their election campaign activities according to the Transparency International Sri Lanka Organization.The vehicles belonging to both Ministers and former Parliamentarians,Provincial Council Chairmans and heads of the government institutions are largely using in current election campaign activities the Transparency International has said.
Although the Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya has requested the political parties to handover the state owned vehicles which are illegally using for election activities by 12 noon today(11) most of the politicians have failed to handover the vehicles before the deadline it has been reported.
Due to this situation the Elections Commissioner has requested the Police to arrest these state owned vehicles which are illegally using
by politicians for election activities with immediate effect.
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