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Police Obstruct Petition To Release General
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Colombo News Desk CND on 06 March, 2010 10:10:00
 
Despite the organizers of the campaign presenting the permission taken to hold
the campaign and use the public address system, the police continued to obstruct
the campaign stating they could not allow public address system to be used.
Later, the organizers had to make use of a megaphone instead of the public
address system.
Former JVP Parliamentarian and DNA candidate for Colombo District Luxman
Nipunarachchi, former PC Member and candidate for DNA national list Wasantha
Malani, Former Test cricketer and DNA candidate for Colombo District Ajith
Cooray and a large number of volunteers took part in the campaign. They had
collected more than 1500 signatures for the petition between 10.00 a.m. and 1.00
p.m. today.