The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya for violating election laws by holding NPP campaign meetings inside Hindu temples in the Jaffna District.
The CMEV’s complaint alleges that the PM attended the NPP’s campaign meetings at two Hindu temples in Jaffna on April 11, in violation of election laws that prohibit holding campaign activities and meetings in places of worship.
The complaint states former Jaffna District MP M.K. Shivajilingam had informed the EC’s Jaffna Office about the planned meetings. Acting on his complaint, EC officials had visited both these locations well before the election campaign meetings were held and informed the temple officials that it was illegal to conduct such meetings within the temple premises.
“It is despite this timely warning and advice that the Prime Minister chose to defiantly conduct political meetings, masquerading as ‘Jana Hamuwas” [Meeting with the People], at the very premises where they were informed not to do so,” the complaint notes.
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