{"id":143400,"date":"2024-08-07T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143400"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:32:39","slug":"we-tried-to-redirect-uprising-towards-parliament-after-gotas-removal-lalkantha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/07\/we-tried-to-redirect-uprising-towards-parliament-after-gotas-removal-lalkantha\/","title":{"rendered":"We tried to redirect uprising towards Parliament after Gota\u2019s removal \u2013 Lalkantha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>National People\u2019s Power (NPP) National Executive Committee member K. D. Lalkantha, stated that while the Galle Face protests succeeded in removing Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power, the effort to direct the uprising toward a parliamentary change failed, rendering the movement fruitless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lalkantha remarked that J. R. Jayewardene, a former leader, did not rely on military control but instead established a strong legal system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with an autocratic executive presidential system, which turned Parliament into a powerless entity.\u201dWe shouldn\u2019t call it a parliament; even a dog is more useful. Parliament has become a useless institution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further explained that once a leader is elected for five years, there\u2019s nothing that can be done until the term is over. Unlike how Gotabaya was removed or how leaders in Bangladesh are ousted, people cannot keep protesting indefinitely to remove a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lalkantha acknowledged that there was an opportunity to channel the people\u2019s uprising at Galle Face into a movement towards Parliament after Gotabaya was ousted.\u201dWe tried to redirect the uprising towards Parliament, but the so-called Galle Face leaders who emerged from the dispersed people\u2019s struggle blocked this. The remaining Parliament rebuilt the collapsed tower, rendering Gotabaya\u2019s removal meaningless,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily News National People\u2019s Power (NPP) National Executive Committee member K. D. Lalkantha, stated that while the Galle Face protests succeeded in removing Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power, the effort to direct the uprising toward a parliamentary change failed, rendering the movement fruitless. Lalkantha remarked that J. R. Jayewardene, a former leader, did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvp-promises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143400","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=143400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}