Rishard Bathiudeen, Leader of the All Ceylon People’s Congress (ACPC) has written to the Chairman of the Elections Commission (ECC) has been.
After the end of the war, the displaced people who had been displaced by the war for nearly three decades began to resettle in their hometowns in the Mannar district in 2009. Although they voluntarily settled in their original villages, the infrastructure in those areas has not yet been adequately developed. The letter also states that they are temporarily residing in houses belonging to these people in the Puttalam district.
It is learned that in several previous elections, including the last Parliamentary Elections, cluster polling stations had been set up to facilitate voting in the Puttalam District, but this time the Elections Department has taken steps to remove the names of voters in the Northern Province from the electoral rolls during the voter registration. The letter states that the reason given was that the voters were residing in the Puttalam district.
Rishad Bathiudeen says that depriving the people of the Northern Province of the right to vote in their homeland is not justified and is a violation of basic human rights.