Monday, September 30, 2013

Beyond Sri Lankan provincial elections


SEEMA SENGUPTA
Monday 30 September 2013
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As a large majority of the sizable 715,000 eligible voters from Sri Lanka’s troubled north went into makeshift polling booths to cast their preferences for electing a 38 member provincial council on September 21, India’s influence was written all over. 
From a five member election observer team led by former election commission chief N.