Sri Lanka, May 31 -- The Governors' Forum is demanding the immediate conduct of the Provincial Council elections.

Issuing a statement, the forum stresses that maintaining Provincial Councils under the Governors' control without holding polls caused the erosion of provincial administration, and therefore, the government must take steps to hold the elections.

The Forum requests the government to take the necessary action to operate the Provincial Councils with public representatives, as there is no objection from all political parties to hold the polls under the old district voting system.

The Governors' Forum also zeroed in on the recent comments made by Tilvin Silva, who is the General Secretary of JVP, the core party of the NPP govern...