SLMC to seek relief from Court of Appeal to accept their

SLMC intends to file applications in the Court of Appeal tomorrow to get an order from the court instructing the elections commissioner and the returning officers, especially in the electoral districts of NE and Puttalam to accept the nominations submitted under the party symbol Tree.

The decision to file this application was taken after the SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem accompanied by his Secretary General and other official had met the elections commissioner yesterday to discuss the course action to be taken lift ban on the nomination lists by the party under its symbol, consequent to an order by court suspending the restraining order issued against the party, its leader and the secretary general on the eve of the local government elections.

During the meeting the commissioner has regretted to the SLMC delegation for having rejected the nominations by the party under its symbol the tree in accordance with the enjoining order issued on February 15. He had also appraised the party officials that in order to accept the rejected nominations a court order was required and the commissioner had assured them that his department had no objections whatsoever in the SLMC getting a court order to the effect and it will not interfere in any move by the party.

This decision was also endorsed at the meeting of the High Command of the SLMC held last night at Party's head-quarters Daarussalaam.