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Provincial Councils-District Councils-District Secretariate-Municipal/Urban Councils – By Oscar Fernando And all this to run this dot of a country whilst playing-political musical chairs and dragging the country down to the labyrinth of bankruptcy. It is time, we opened our eyes to see the folly we were in, and put a stop to the Merry Go Rounds and merry-merry go rounds of musical chairs-what with introducing Provincial Councils-so devised to settle a bludgeoning power devolution problem but has ended in disaster with the failed rounds of talks that have festered the existing wound even further-and contributing in no small way to the bankruptcy of the economy! Can we even now, take the bold step of halting this folly of a costly Provincial Council Election imminently round the corner and consider scrapping all political councils and run this dot of a country with the District Secretary DS under the Minister of Local ...