Schools in polling Provinces closed on Friday
Curtain falls on election campaigning. All campaigns with respect to the Western and Southern Provincial Council polls draws to an end at midnight today. 26 thousand Police Officers will be deployed in these provinces from tomorrow to maintain law and order.
Schools within these two Provinces will be kept closed on day after tomorrow. The Elections Commissioner has requested private educational institutions too to grant an opportunity to the voters to cast their ballot.
Campaigning for the Provincial polls will come to a close at midnight today. All Election offices of candidates should be dismantled from midnight tomorrow.
Expressing views in this respect to ITN Additional Elections Commissioner R.M.A.L. Ratnayake said that all campaigning after midnight today is barred. Candidates should also remove cut outs, banners and decorations which were permitted to be displayed from midnight today. Offices set up at the electoral level can be maintained until midnight tomorrow but it is necessary to remove the cut outs, banners and posters at these offices from midnight today. Mr. Ratnayake said that the Elections Department along with the Police will launch a programme from tomorrow to undertaken inspections.
In the meantime, all schools in the Western and Southern Provinces will be kept closed on Friday in view of the polls to be held on Saturday the 29th. Royal, Isipathana and D.S. Senanayake Colleges which will be used as counting Centres in the Colombo District will be kept closed tomorrow and the day after. The Education Ministry has announced that the Siyane Education College which will also be utilized as a counting centre of the Gampaha District will be kept closed until the 02nd of April. The Suchi National School to be used as a counting Centre in the Hambantota District is closed from today until Friday the 28th. Also the Education Ministry said that the Hapitigama National Education College will be kept closed from tomorrow until Sunday the 30th.
Meanwhile it has been decided to shut down all liquor shops within the Western and Southern Provinces on Saturday due to the Provincial polls.
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