United National Party (UNP) chief ministerial candidate Harin Fernando today threatened to launch a death fast if the police and the other authorities continued to act biased in favour of the Government when maintaining law and order in the Uva Province.

He told a media briefing that he would fast to death if the authorities attempted to remove his party’s propaganda material while permitting the ruling party to continue with its propaganda material.

“We will put up cutouts of our leaders just like the ruling party which is putting up cutouts of their leaders and will launch a death fast if they are removed,” he said.

Mr. Fernando said he had been asked to remove posters which had his name with the ‘right’ mark with Sinhala spellings.

He accused the police of being biased in favour of the Government when it came to granting permission to ruling party candidates to open election offices while being reluctant to grant permission to the opposition to do so.  (Yohan Perera and Sanath Desmond)