By IANS,
Colombo: More than 100 people have been arrested in Sri lanka following violence in the run up to parliamentary elections April 8, Xinhua reported Saturday.
“We have arrested 102 people and 234 more are to be arrested,” Gamini Navaratne, the deputy inspector general of police, told reporters Saturday.
Navaratne said party supporters were being misled by candidates to indulge in violence.
Election monitors said intra-party clashes rather than inter-party rivalry had led to the growing number of violent incidents.
Sri Lanka’s parliament was dissolved in February. Its 225 members are to be elected based on the proportional representation system for a six-year term April 8.