{"id":131757,"date":"2023-01-30T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131757"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:56:05","slug":"npp-books-highest-number-of-buses-for-poll-campaigns-from-where-do-they-get-their-funds-gemunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/30\/npp-books-highest-number-of-buses-for-poll-campaigns-from-where-do-they-get-their-funds-gemunu\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP books highest number of buses for poll campaigns, from where do they get their funds? Gemunu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>While commenting on spending money on private buses to transport people to political campaigns, the Lanka Private Bus Owners&#8217; Association (LPBOA) today said the highest number of buses were hired by the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) party, which intends to contest the upcoming election under the compass symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the media LPBOA Chairman Gemunu Wijerathne said nearly 150 private buses were provided for the meeting held at Nugegoda a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We do not have limitations on providing any number of buses for any political party to continue with their local government election campaigns, but only for cash,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These days, the income of the majority of the private buses is good due their buses being used to transport people to public meetings targeting the local government election,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The private buses are getting their payments, but the parties cannot even find out how they get their funds for their election campaigns. To travel at least 50 kilometers, a single private bus costs a minimum of Rs. 30,000, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he explained these politicians bring people to their political meetings while spending the money for buses to run up to 300 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the current economic situation in the country, the LPBOA chairman questioned how politicians were able to raise such large sums of money for their election campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, he requested the political parties to let the youth come to power through politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vdo.ai\/contact?utm_medium=video&amp;utm_term=dailymirror.lk&amp;utm_source=vdoai_logo\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror While commenting on spending money on private buses to transport people to political campaigns, the Lanka Private Bus Owners&#8217; Association (LPBOA) today said the highest number of buses were hired by the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) party, which intends to contest the upcoming election under the compass symbol. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}