{"id":9459,"date":"2020-08-04T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:40:04","slug":"slbc-accused-of-blatantly-violating-election-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/slbc-accused-of-blatantly-violating-election-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"SLBC accused of blatantly violating election laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The state owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has been accused of blatantly violating election laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) yesterday informed the Election Commission that the Muslim Service of SLBC had been violating election laws during the silent period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although it is the silent period where no election propaganda is to take place, the Muslim Service of SLBC carried a voice cut by SLPP Beruwala organiser, Marjan Faleel urging the voters to support SLPP Kurunegala candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThis is also a misuse of public property. This is not the first time that the SLBC had violated election laws and CaFFE had lodged similar complaints to the Commission earlier,\u201d CaFFE said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CaFFE has also received a number of complaints about propaganda during the silent period. These include promoting candidates at religious establishments as well as distributing goods to voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has been accused of blatantly violating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}