{"id":134938,"date":"2014-12-15T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T07:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=134938"},"modified":"2014-12-21T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T09:13:23","slug":"cricket-fans-at-pallekele-boo-rajapaksa-election-propaganda-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cricket-fans-at-pallekele-boo-rajapaksa-election-propaganda-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Fans At Pallekele Boo Rajapaksa Election Propaganda Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to politicise the sixth ODI between Sri Lanka and England in Pallekele on Saturday became a total flop when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=cricket&amp;x=8&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cricket<\/span><\/a> fans hooted the stands down until presidential election propaganda was taken off giant screens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda_Rajapaksa\" width=\"318\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>Presidential election motto &#8220;Subha Anagathayak&#8221; appeared with his lotus flower insignia during the match, where crowds were preoccupied with giving former skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumar+Sangakkara&amp;x=9&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kumar Sangakkara<\/span><\/a> a rousing farewell from Kandy.<\/p>\n<p>When giant screens at the Pallekele Stadium flashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s election propaganda, the crowds hooted and booed until organisers were forced to remove the electronic banner.<\/p>\n<p>Not even cricket and the prisons have escaped the Government&#8217;s electioneering efforts, with election monitors reporting today that prisoners in their prison uniforms were being used by the ruling UPFA coalition to carry out election work.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures released by the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections or CaFFE showed prison buses and prisoners in blue jumpsuits walking the streets holding Mahinda Rajapaksa cut outs and posters. 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