{"id":133440,"date":"2023-04-02T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133440"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:04:50","slug":"sinister-move-to-get-sjb-mps-to-cross-over-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/02\/sinister-move-to-get-sjb-mps-to-cross-over-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinister move to get SJB MPs to cross over \u2013Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa alleged that there is a sinister move to buy over MPs from his party the Samagi Jana Balawegaya ( SJB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a public meeting in Dehiwala, Mr. Premadasa said some MPs have been offered millions of rupees if they cross over to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buying over of MPs is the latest game plan of the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incumbent President once sent his MPs on a tour to Singapore to woo MPs to his side when a UPFA government tried to woo them,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One wonders whether the government is out of its mind to launch an operation to woo MPs to its side when some in the ruling party are contemplating crossing over to the opposition,\u201d he added.(<strong>Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa alleged that there is a sinister move to buy over MPs from his party the Samagi Jana Balawegaya ( SJB). Speaking during a public meeting in Dehiwala, Mr. Premadasa said some MPs have been offered millions of rupees if they cross over to the government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133440","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=133440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}