Sri Lanka Marxists give false information in nominations for LG election

A police investigation has revealed that Sri Lanka Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has acted fraudulently in compiling nominations for the local government election to be held next month.

A police investigation conducted in the Gampola urban council area has discovered that the party has given false addresses as the residences of its candidates.

The police have found three JVP candidates who do not reside in the places they have mentioned as their addresses in the nomination papers.

Further, these three persons are not in the voters' lists of the Gampola urban council area, the police found.