Sri Lanka, March 19 -- Colombo, March 19 () - The cash-strapped government will have to cough up another Rs.11 billion in case a snap parliamentary election is declared ahead of the Presidential Election which is anyway due in terms of the Constitution during the last quarter of this year, learns.

This will be in addition to over Rs.10 billion already allocated to the Election Commission in the 2024 budget for the conduct of the Presidential Election.

A spokesman for the Election Commission told that money had not been allocated in the current budget for a General Election since it is not scheduled for this year. However, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has the discretion to dissolve Parliament at any time to call for a snap general elec...