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| New government meets with Buddhist clergy in Kandy. Photographs @AHemmathagama |
Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, assured the chief Buddhist clergy that security was tight in the Tamil area, dismissing reports of stones being pelted at army bases and the hoisting of Tamil Eelam flags shortly after the election victory of the common opposition's candidate, Maithripala Sirisena.
Meeting the Buddhist clergy at a religious ceremony, along side President Sirisena and Chandrika Kumaratunge, in the Temple of the Sacred Tooth in Kandy, Ranil said that such reports were "false and baseless".
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“I obtained a report from the Jaffna DIG and he told me that there were no incidents from election day and that the army has also not been harassed in any way,” he was quoted by Colombo Gazette as saying on Sunday to reporters in Kandy.
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Meanwhile, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Ravi Waidyalankara announced that an investigation would be launched into who was spreading these reports.
"There have been no reports of any sort of violence in Jaffna and that the police and army have ensured maximum security in the [Jaffna] peninsula," DIG Waidyalankara said, reports Adaderana.
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