{"id":131750,"date":"2014-10-14T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=131750"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T09:55:33","slug":"voter-bribery-for-upcoming-presidential-election-in-jaffna-suma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/voter-bribery-for-upcoming-presidential-election-in-jaffna-suma\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter Bribery For Upcoming Presidential Election In Jaffna: Suma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to coax the voters in the North before the upcoming presidential elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">President Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> distributed some 20,000 families with land claiming they were handed over to the beneficiaries through title deeds when in fact they are only land permits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121135\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sumanthiran-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121135\" alt=\"Sumanthiran \" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sumanthiran-.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-121135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumanthiran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reporting on the President\u2019s three-day visit to the North where he re-opened the railway line to Jaffna, local media has published that some 20,000 displaced families have received title deeds of lands. However, sources claim these lands have not awarded by title deeds but through permits under the Land Development Ordinance backed by Ranbima Grants \u2013 a scheme of issuing ownership documents under Section 19(4) of the Land Development Ordinance to members of the Farmers\u2019 Class.<\/p>\n<p>TNA MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=M.A.+Sumanthiran&amp;x=13&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MA Sumanthiran<\/span><\/a> commenting on the distribution of land to the 20,000 displaced families told Colombo Telegraph that the entire process adopted in handing over these lands is flawed.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out the Constitution demands that the Provincial Council should recommend to the President to alienate land but that it has not been followed in handing over these lands to the 20,000 beneficiaries. He also pointed out that these families have been selected to receive these lands several years ago and the delaying of the process has made it evident that these actions are mere election bribes.<\/p>\n<p>MP Sumanthiran\u2019s comment is further confirmed through the letter written to the President by Northern Province Chief Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CV Wigneswaran<\/span><\/a>, explaining the reasons that led to the Board of Ministers and the Chairman of the NPC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/npc-chief-wiggie-and-ministers-to-boycott-rajapaksas-jaffna-meeting\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">boycotting the special<\/span><\/a> district meeting presided by the President.<\/p>\n<p>The CM had pointed out the distribution of lands is a dubious process since no permission had been sought and neither had he been made aware of the scheme, despite him being the Provincial Minister in charge of lands.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the\u00a0Land Grab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Land+Grab&amp;x=8&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":121135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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