{"id":143243,"date":"2024-07-29T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143243"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:39:29","slug":"election-comm-notified-over-nurses-attending-npps-meeting-in-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/07\/29\/election-comm-notified-over-nurses-attending-npps-meeting-in-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Comm. notified over nurses attending NPP\u2019s meeting in uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) organization alleges that the participation of government nurses in uniform at the National All Ceylon Nurses\u2019 Conference held yesterday (29) under the leadership of National People\u2019s Power (NPP) leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is a violation of election regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CaFFE has informed the National Election Commission in writing that the use of uniforms provided by the public tax money for political purposes is a breach of the Establishments Code and also the Election regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the People\u2019s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) has also notified the Election Commission in writing that this act is a violation of election regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a discussion between the country\u2019s security chiefs and Election Commission officials was held today (29). The Secretary of Public Security Viyani Gunathilaka and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Shavendra Silva were reportedly present at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) organization alleges that the participation of government nurses in uniform at the National All Ceylon Nurses\u2019 Conference held yesterday (29) under the leadership of National People\u2019s Power (NPP) leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is a violation of election regulations. CaFFE has informed the National Election Commission [&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-143243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143243","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=143243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}