{"id":127002,"date":"2022-07-16T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127002"},"modified":"2022-07-16T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T00:14:56","slug":"gl-questions-kariyawasam-on-backing-ranil-for-office-of-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/16\/gl-questions-kariyawasam-on-backing-ranil-for-office-of-president\/","title":{"rendered":"GL questions Kariyawasam on backing Ranil for office of president"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof. G.L. Peris has called for an explanation from the party\u2019s General-Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam regarding his statement on backing the candidature of Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in the election in parliament for the office of President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db1\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dc4\u0dc3\u0dca \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dad\u0daf \u0dad\u0dd3\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-owQEtxrGgY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter directed to Kariyawasam, Prof. Peiris demanded a response for the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Under what authority this purported decision was made;<br>\u2022 The names of the persons who purportedly participated in the making of this decision;<br>\u2022 The basis of selecting these persons;<br>\u2022 The venue, date and time of the purported meeting;<br>\u2022 Particulars relating to the notice convening the purported meeting including the date and time of the notice;<br>\u2022 The provision of the constitution of SLPP, in terms of which this purported decision was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma announced his decision to vie for the presidency yesterday, Kariyawasam had stated that the party would support Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as a candidate in the parliamentary vote scheduled for July 20, to elect a new President for post which currently remains vacant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof. G.L. Peris has called for an explanation from the party\u2019s General-Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam regarding his statement on backing the candidature of Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in the election in parliament for the office of President. In a letter directed to Kariyawasam, Prof. Peiris demanded a [&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-127002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127002","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=127002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}