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NPC won’t be given police or land powers – Minister Weerasekera
By Keerthi Warnakulasuriya
The newly appointed Local Government State Minister Sarath Weerasekera yesterday assured that no land or police powers would be given to the Northern Provincial Council.
Weerasekera assumed duties at his office at Union Place.
Weerasekera said that if police powers were given to the Northern Provincial Council, the entire Police force would disintegrate and there would be provincial police chiefs.