{"id":126724,"date":"2022-07-08T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126724"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:00:47","slug":"the-opposition-party-sjb-to-surround-presidents-house-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/08\/the-opposition-party-sjb-to-surround-presidents-house-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposition party (SJB)  to surround President\u2019s House tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today said its entire party machinery will come to Colombo tomorrow and surround the President&#8217;s House and will remain there till President Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will&nbsp; gather at Fort Railway station and will march&nbsp; towards the President&#8217;s House later and remain there till the President resigns,  SJB General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara and two other MPs Rajitha Senaratne and Mujibur Rahman told a press conference today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call on all people to violate curfew in such an eventuality and join in the final battle to grab power,\u201d the MPs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also urge security forces and&nbsp; the police&nbsp; not to follow orders given by the top and join in the uprising,\u201d Mr. Madduma Bandara said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said top brass of the government had&nbsp; ordered the relevant institutions to stop the distribution of fuel in order to prevent the people from coming to the capital today.  There is a move to stop railway transportation through an act of sabotage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament will be convened if the President leaves today&nbsp; to choose a successor,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SJB also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe saying he is also proven to be a failure.(<strong>Yohan<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Perera<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today said its entire party machinery will come to Colombo tomorrow and surround the President&#8217;s House and will remain there till President Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves office. We will&nbsp; gather at Fort Railway station and will march&nbsp; towards the President&#8217;s House later and remain there till the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}