Northern Province Election and the PSC Sumanasiri Liyanage Giving an interview to an Indian national newspaper based in Chennai, The Hindu , appears to have become a perennial practice of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In this interview, ( http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3624948.ece ) he has revealed that “We want to hold elections in September 2013. We are working towards it [the elections] in a systematic manner.” President Rajapaksa who has great liking for elections at whatever level and who has initiated recently preponing three provincial elections including the election of the war-ravaged Eastern Province has tried time and again since May 2009 to postpone the elections to the Northern PC giving multiple excuses. Of course one may easily find adequate reasons for the postponement of election in an area where a ‘dirty’ war was fought for nearly 30 years. Nonetheless, one of the principal measures that has been suggested to take to move in the direction...