Legislation to outlaw political parties bearing the identity of a religion or a race will be introduced in Parliament later this month, a senior minister said yesterday.

Only a few voters went to the polls in the northern town of Jaffna where elections to the Municipal Council were held yesterday for the first time in 11 years– with election officials saying only 18,336 voters or 18.26 percent of the100,417 eligible voters had cast their ballots.