Sri Lanka, March 25 -- Although the Local Government (LG) elections have to be held once in four years, they have been scheduled this time for May 6, after a lapse of seven years. Last time the LG polls were held on February 10, 2018 at which the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) secured a landslide victory, bagging over 239 out of 340 councils.
In Sri Lanka we have three tiers of people's representative councils, namely Parliament, provincial councils and the local government bodies. The local government bodies are categorized as municipal councils, urban councils and pradeshiya sabhas. LG bodies carry out important functions at grass-root level such as disposal of garbage, street lighting, construction and maintenance of rural roads as...