{"id":105391,"date":"2013-09-14T00:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=105391"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:09:16","slug":"photograph-evidence-presidential-offspring-navy-officer-violating-election-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/photograph-evidence-presidential-offspring-navy-officer-violating-election-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Photograph Evidence: Presidential Offspring Navy Officer Violating Election Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instances of gross violation of election laws by public officials relating to the use of the public property during the upcoming provincial election in the Northern Province have been reported to the Elections Commissioner by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) with documentary proof including photographs, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>These include an incident of the Governor of the Northern Province Major General <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=G.A.+Chandrasiri&amp;x=14&amp;y=7\">G.A. Chandrasiri<\/a><\/span> taking part in election propaganda work and more than 500 government officials being used for the UPFA\u2019s election campaign, TISL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential offspring, member of parliament <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Namal+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\">Namal Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>\u2019s yesterday tweets show that his brother, navy officer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yoshitha++Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=0\">Yoshitha Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> is also taking part in election propaganda work in Killinochchi and violating the elections law . Under the elections law, a State official cannot get involved in political campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/photograph-evidence-presidential-offspring-navy-officer-violating-election-laws\/namals-tweets-on-rr-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105393\" title=\"Namal's Tweets on RR 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR-1.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR-1-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/photograph-evidence-presidential-offspring-navy-officer-violating-election-laws\/namals-tweets-on-rr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105394\" title=\"Namal's Tweets on RR\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Namals-Tweets-on-RR-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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