28 September 2020 01:19 pm
The people in the North today (28) staged a hartal in protest to the ban issued by the Northern Provincial courts banning the commemorating a former LTTE member Thileepan.
Several political parties and civil society organizations in the North including Tamil National Alliance had requested to close government establishments, schools and the private sector institutions as well.
Accordingly, the shop owners in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Vavuniya and Mannar put up shutters and closed businesses for the day.
However, the business community in Vavuniya agreed to open the shops at about 11 a.m. today in response to a request by the Police.
The Police said public transport services and government institutions in all districts in the North functions as usual. (Sithum Chaturanga)