{"id":81220,"date":"2018-09-21T16:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81220"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:07:45","slug":"review-committee-seeks-more-time-pc-polls-further-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/21\/review-committee-seeks-more-time-pc-polls-further-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Committee seeks more time; PC polls further delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Shamindra Ferdinando\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Delimitation Review Committee (DRC) chaired by UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed Speaker Karu Jayasuriya that it needs two additional months to carry out its task and this will further delay the Provincial Council polls.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Jayasuriya\u2019s Office, yesterday, confirmed the DRC\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker announced the appointment of the DRC on Aug 28 soon after parliament overwhelmingly rejected the delimitation report submitted by Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Faiszer Musthapha. Earlier the DRC was to submit its report to President Maithripala Sirisena within two months to pave the way for long delayed polls for three PCs early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of Wickremesinghe\u2019s committee are R.M.A.L. Ratnayake, Periyasamy Muthulingam, Professor Balasundarampillai and Dr A.S.M. Naufal.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Chairman and senior JO spokesman Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday told\u00a0The Island\u00a0that the government was somehow trying to delay PC polls for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker\u2019s Office said that party leaders yesterday discussed the DRC\u2019s move and ways and means to expedite the process leading to PC polls.<\/p>\n<p>By October this year, three more PCs would cease to function. Three PCs ceased nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Opposition last night said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would chair a media briefing at his Wijerama residence on Saturday (Sept 22) to explain their position regarding the latest government move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shamindra Ferdinando\u00a0Courtesy The Island The Delimitation Review Committee (DRC) chaired by UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed Speaker Karu Jayasuriya that it needs two additional months to carry out its task and this will further delay the Provincial Council polls. Speaker Jayasuriya\u2019s Office, yesterday, confirmed the DRC\u2019s request. The Speaker announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81220","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=81220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}