{"id":51105,"date":"2012-08-13T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=51105"},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:10:20","slug":"thuggery-reappears-in-eastern-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/thuggery-reappears-in-eastern-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuggery Reappears In Eastern Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our\u00a0Eastern Province\u00a0Correspondent &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Unidentified members have been inducted by the UFPA, the alliance in Government to engineer the Eastern provincial council elections in their own fashion with the support TMVP members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51112\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/thuggery-reappears-in-eastern-election\/pillyancol1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51112\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51112\" title=\"pillyancol1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pillyancol1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pillyancol1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pillyancol1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pillayan\/ File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=TNA&amp;x=14&amp;y=6\">Tamil National Alliance (TNA)<\/a><\/span> candidate Krishnapillai Seyon and his supporters were canvassing for TNA in Karuvaakeni, Valaichenai when these men in two Motorbikes (EPVI-8746, NCHR-7414) appeared and started to abuse them in filth against the candidate, his supporters and TNA party and left the scene. Then they reappeared in force on a tractor carriage with forty goons armed with sticks and batons and confronted TNA campaign group. The poster on the campaign vehicle was torn off by this goon squad and hand bills were confiscated and destroyed at once in front of us, a member of TNA campaign team told\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We were told that this area belongs to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pillayan&amp;x=4&amp;y=5\">Chief Minister Chandrakaanthan (Pillayan)<\/a><\/span> and no other party can conduct campaign and asked to leave the vicinity. When the goons were becoming agitated and demanded that if we do not leave immediately that we were going to be harmed. The identified culprit of this alleged violation is identified as a supporter of chief minister Chandrakaanthan from Sunkankeni and an ex-provincial council member of Eastern province from ruling alliance party of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=5&amp;y=9\">President Rajapakse<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This incident of election violation was brought to the attention of Police and election monitors in writing by TNA candidate Krishnapillai Seyon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":51106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[3715,3713,3712,2176,3714,1552,2834],"class_list":["post-51105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-chief-minister-chandrakaanthan-pillayan","tag-devolution-of-power-in-sri-lanka","tag-eastern-province-election","tag-election-corruptions-in-sri-lanka","tag-elections-commissioner-sri-lanka","tag-independent-elections-commission","tag-provincial-elections-sri-lanka-news-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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