Late City Edition 2 Friday 9th April, 2010 The Island Home News Page Two Are you a lucky winner? SATURDAY FORTUNE JATHIKA SAMPATHA VASANA MAHAJANA SAMPATHA DEVELOPMENT FORTUNE DOUBLE CHANCE JAYAVIRU GOVI SETHA DOUBLE CHANCE Date 24-02-2010 Date:03-04-2010 Draw No: 05 SAMPATHA Date: 06 04-2010 Draw No: 1180 Date:31-03-2010 Date: 22-03-2010 Date: 06-04-2010 - Date 06-04-2010 Date: 08-04-2010 Draw No.2099 Draw No.10 Date 06-04-2010 Draw No. 505 Draw Draw No. 05 Draw No. 2226 Zodiac Symbol: Virgo Super No.18 Draw No. 814 Bones No55 Bonus No:02 Winning Nos : No. 747 Bonus No. 18 Winning No: Winning Nos: Winning Nos: Bonus No. 30 Winning No: Winning Nos: F- 28-29-30- 37 R- 12 - 14 - 27- 52 03-11-14-16 R-2-1-5-1-4- 8 09-25-37-41 03 - 11 - 14 -16 C - 15-24-34-68 R- 18- 27- 28- 64 B-5-8-9-3-8 Voters lacked Sand... From page 1 enthusiasm – MENIKE BY DILANTHI JAYAMANNE Public resources The Centre for Monitoring Free and Fair Elections and Democratic Rights said yesterday’s polling was very slack in the morning and very much less than at the blatantly abused – TISL Presidential Elections this January. MENIKE Chairman, Chandrasiri de BY LAL GUNESEKERA advertisements in the media, Vavuniya to transport sup- People’s Bank, who are Silva said yesterday that the centre did mobile phone text messages porters for a meeting. Gampaha District Residents not expect more than sixty percent of vot- The Parliamentary and house to house cam- Two Rosa buses of the to vote for Basil Rajapaksa. ers to cast their votes. Election campaign was paigns were conducted. Ports Authority were used The Defence Secretary instructed by the Geological Survey The people were very enthusiastic dur- marred by blatant abuse of Buses belonging to the for the election work of Hari Gotabaya Rajapaksa address- and Mines Bureau (GSMB) to stop sand ing the Presidential elections. MENIKE public resources with Technical Colleges in Gupta Rohanadeera and ing UPFA meetings too came mining under the Peliyagoda Bridge. had mobilised fifteen member teams in impunity and weak imple- Ratnapura and drivers paid in for criticism, and also the The Island yesterday spotted two boats Hambantota, Matara, Galle, Kalutara mentation of the law by the Anuradhapura allowances transfer of 80 Assistant Colombo and Gampaha districts. The filled with sand under the bridge yester- Police and the failure of were used Three buses for the cam- Instructors of the depart- day morning. Elections Commissioner had expressed for election paign in ment of Technical Education even the Elections One of the boatmen on seeing that concern over the Nawalapitiya, Puttalam related work belonging to Colombo. and Training to Galle Commissioner to take they had been spotted and a cameraman and Matara districts as there had been in the Galle the Even District for the election cam- action. focusing his sight on them, immediately several incidents of intra-party violence This was stated by the District, public ser- paign of Minister Piyasena vacated the area. reported in those areas. Programme for the while 70 Nittambuwa Depot were on vants had Gamage. “ GSMB Director Dr. O. K. Dissanayake De Silva, who was in Yakkala monitor- Protection of Public SLTB buses election campaign work at endorsed One Assistant Director of “ told The Island yesterday that they had ing the situation, said there was a notice- Resources of Transparency were used to Galgamuwa on March 27, the candi- Education, five Principals able degree of lethargy to the general elec- International yesterday. transport sup- while two buses from the dature of and seven teachers had been received a number of complaints about tion. They said that election porters of the same depot were sent to certain campaigning for UPFA illegal sand mining in the area and in turn Meanwhile, General Secretary of the propaganda materials were UPFA for a candidates Anuradhapura District can- they had informed the CCD to act fast Trade Union Confederation Saman displayed along the main Rally in Vauniya to transport sup- in adver- didate Duminda because the areas came under purview of Ratnapriya said there had only been a few roads and the abuse of pub- Vavuniya on porters for a tisements Dissanayake during school the CCD. minor incidents reported during the lic resources and the ineffi- April 1 where meeting. in the hours on March 19 in “We have already informed the morning session and the voter turnout ciency of the Police had seri- President Newspapers, Saliyapura, Shantipura and Supreme Court of this illegal action, he was not satisfactory. ously lowered the integrity Rajapaksa which include top University Nachchiyaduwa areas. said, “we will deal with the culprits after of the election. addressed the meeting Dons. Top Bank of Ceylon Transparency the polls.” Transparency organized by Minister personnel, including its International stated that Dr. Dissanayake said that the culprits International also alleged Rishard Bathiudeen. Chairman Gamini Chapter xxxii of the were backed by politicians in the area and No chance of free, that many persons holding Three buses belonging to Wickremasinghe attended a Establishment Code clearly that may be one reason for the delay in important positions in the the Nittambuwa Depot were campaign meeting of UPFA prohibits government nabbing and prosecuting them. W’bahu public sector were engaged on election campaign work candidate Basil Rajapaksa at employees from engaging in CCD Acting Director Anil Premaratne fair polls – in electioneering and though at Galgamuwa on March 27, Ja-Ela to solicit support of election campaign activities said that the areas photographed recently BY LAL GUNASEKERA April 6 was announced at the while two buses from the the employees of Central and violate the Elections did not come under the 2-km radius from “A free and fair election cannot be final day for this purpose, same depot were sent to Bank, Bank of Ceylon and Commissioner’s directives. the estuary.He said the police had the pow- expected, as there have been quite a lot of ers to nab illegal sand miners not only in violations of the election laws that have rivers but also on roads. been reported to us,” the leader of the Left He said his department had given only Liberation Front (LLF) told ‘The Island’ yesterday. Polling... two sand mining groups in Wattala and Dr. Wickremabahu Karunaratne said Mattakkuliya permission to use an area of violence has been unleashed in From page 1 2-km radius from the river mouth and the Nawalapitiya and people in the Northern rest of the area where the mining was Province, including IDPs had difficulties PAFFREL said it had being did not come under its purview. in travelling to polling booths to cast their received reports of “We gave them permits in the 1980s votes due to transport problems. intra–party clashes, especial- after consulting the Divisional The veteran Trade Unionist and Left ly among UPFA supporters. Secretariats of Colombo and Gampaha,” politician said the LLF expected to win at Other reports said that he added. last three seats in Parliament. He is on the UNP polling agents had been The Island learns that illegal miners national list. chased from several booths in Dr. Karunaratne said two former Nawalapitiya and the police had been questioned twice recently but Parliamentarians of the Tamil National had done very little to bring due to alleged underworld connections, Alliance (TNA), N. Sri Kantha and the situation under control. they had not been prosecuted. Sivajilingam, who contested the There were also several com- Presidential Election on January 26 as plaints of canvassing of Independents, had joined hands with the votes near polling booths. LLF. Together with other dissidents of the A senior government ‘Two... From page 1 TNA, they contested all five districts in politician attributed the low the North and East. voter turn-out to the UNPers On being further questioned, the “Although I had problems voting at the accepting defeat and not ven- women told Police that they had marked January Presidential Election, I found no turing out to vote. problem to cast my vote yesterday as I had In one incident in preferences for a Colombo based Minister the necessary identification,” Dr. Colombo, two women were and that they had been given the polling Karunaratne said. arrested for voting four times cards by a man in Kelaniya. The liquid to He said that voters must use their fran- each. Police recovered a bun- erase the indelible ink had also been pro- chise to defeat this corrupt and undemoc- Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa casts his vote yestarday morning at the I.M.R.A. dle of polling cards from vided by the same man, the suspects said. ratic UPFA regime. He said that the people Iriyagolla Vidyalaya in Katugampola. His wife Mrs Dammika Sumanaratne Yapa and daugh- their possession. have suffered enough in the last 16 years. ter Danodya Yapa too cast their votes. Minister’s... From page 1 From page 1 From Lankan... New Year... page 1 about 8 kms from the place of abduc- onboard the Indian tion, according to the Sri Lanka Muslim finalising the arrange- presidential directive. by The Island, a spokesper- ship. Authoritative Congress. ments in this regard. One of the major rea- son for Hindu College, sources told The Island Ibrahim Lebbe is still held by his He said that at the end sons for Sri Lanka’s suc- Ratmalana said that 198 that SLNS Samudura, abductors and his whereabouts are of war last May, there had cessful rehabilitation LTTE cadres were now too, would be involved in unknown.