Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that there was no need to postpone the Local Government Election and it will be held in March 2016 as planned.

Speaking this morning at the National Management Conference, he also said that the government was facing the challenge of establishing a fully democratic society.

Wickremesinghe argued that reconciliation could not be established by limiting to judicial and non-judicial mechanisms. It must be established in the background of wider democracy, he added.

The two main political parties have decided to work together to face the challenges, he added. Constitutional reform and other measures will be introduced in the next two years, the Prime Minister said.