President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a statement said that the UPFA's landslide victory at Uva Provincial Council election is an endorsement of the government’s massive development drive.
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The Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said the conduct of the Uva provincial council election has been peaceful thus far and no major incidents of election violence were reported up to now.