Election Campaign for the forthcoming
Presidential Election had been concvluded midnight yesterdsy (13)according to the National Election Commission.
Accordingly All the candidates running for the Executive presidency had concluded their election rallies around 12 midnight.
Election campaigns of any form are being banned during next 48 hours up to the Election day which falls on this saturday (16) the Chairman of the Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya has stated .
Addressing a press briefing held in Colombo yesterday The Chairman of the Election Commission has stressed that all kinds of advertesements related to the presidential election will be banned within next 48 hours after the deadline of the Election campaign.
"All the Election offices maintained by political parties in rural areas should be closed and a programme to renove all Election posters and cutouts is currently underway island wide .I wants social media users to be silent over the presidential campaign within next 48 hours like observing pansil (panchasheela in Buddhism).But cannot accept them that in an enviornment which my photograph has been used for a political party advertesement " he has said .
Presidential Election had been concvluded midnight yesterdsy (13)according to the National Election Commission.
Accordingly All the candidates running for the Executive presidency had concluded their election rallies around 12 midnight.
Election campaigns of any form are being banned during next 48 hours up to the Election day which falls on this saturday (16) the Chairman of the Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya has stated .
Addressing a press briefing held in Colombo yesterday The Chairman of the Election Commission has stressed that all kinds of advertesements related to the presidential election will be banned within next 48 hours after the deadline of the Election campaign.
"All the Election offices maintained by political parties in rural areas should be closed and a programme to renove all Election posters and cutouts is currently underway island wide .I wants social media users to be silent over the presidential campaign within next 48 hours like observing pansil (panchasheela in Buddhism).But cannot accept them that in an enviornment which my photograph has been used for a political party advertesement " he has said .