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Kandy Municipal Council first meeting ends in disarray
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The Kandy Municipal Council has faced its first obstacle after being forced to postpone its first meeting over a dispute of setting up committees, which are key to administration.
The council met on Thursday at its chamber.
Under the Act of the Municipal Councils, at the very first meeting after elections, committees have to be elected for the administration of the council. The most important is the finance committee.
A spokesman of the opposition group who walked out said that two different lists of members had been circulated and one of them was fraudulent.
NPP Mayor Chandrasiri Wijenayake postponed the meeting due to the opposition walk out claiming that the elections to the eight committees had been altered, and that the finance committee does not include the required number of members as required by the Act.
The Mayor had to postpone the meeting for a subsequent date which has paralysed the council.
The opposition, who walked out en-bloc irrespective of parties, declared that there was a subsequent list of members for the committees other than the official one sent out by the Secretary of the Council for nomination.
The finance committee is chaired by the Mayor.
The next date of the council has not been officially announced.
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