The year 2020 has been a year like no other for Sri Lankans and for a newly elected Government which came into office only late last year. It has been a year full of challenges through which it has soldiered on, weathering a once-in-a-century pandemic while still enacting significant changes.
Costs reduced from estimated Rs. 7 b to Rs. 4.56 b
The newly-appointed Election Commission, which held its inaugural meeting yesterday, said that the cost of last November’s Presidential Election had reduced from the estimated Rs. 7 billion to Rs 4.56 billion.
The Commission said that the cost of conducting the election was reduced due to proper management of monies allocated for holding the poll.
The newly-appointed five-member EC is headed by Nimal G. Punchihewa who has served as the Commission’s Legal Adviser for several years while its other members are M.M. Mohamed, S.B. Divaratne, Jeevan Thyagarajah and K.P.P. Pathirana.
Charismatic Actor -Politician Vijaya Kumaratunga: 75th Birth Anniversary Tribute – dbsjeyaraj.com Posted by Administrator on
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Kovilage Vijaya Anthony Kumaratunga, known to the world as Vijaya Kumaratunga, was born in Seeduwa on 9 October 1945. Vijaya was an endearing personality with an enduring vision whom I liked, admired and respected very much. He was a man who envisaged the transformation of Sri Lanka into an inclusive, multi-ethnic, egalitarian and plural nation. A much-loved man of the masses who may have altered the destiny of this resplendent isle in a very positive manner, had he not been felled in the prime of life by foul assassins. A man whose worth is increasingly valued in the present time where communal discord is deliberately promoted for short-term political gain.