Sri Lanka, Nov. 7 -- A group of film and teledrama artistes supporting the SLPP yesterday protested any election link up between SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa and independent candidate and former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah.

Addressing news media at the SLPP-SLFP joint campaign office in Rajagiriya, they said they were against the establishment of any university, which would nourish the Sharia'h Law within the country as Sri Lanka was a Buddhist-majority state. "We do not approve of Wahabism, Madrasa schools or Sharia'h Law within Sri Lanka as those have dangerous impacts," they said.

They also argued that Presidential candidate Rajapaske does not need the second preferential vote of candidate M.L.A.M. ...