{"id":145988,"date":"2024-11-22T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145988"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:32:51","slug":"watch-new-jaffna-mp-sits-in-opposition-leaders-chair-refuses-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/22\/watch-new-jaffna-mp-sits-in-opposition-leaders-chair-refuses-to-move\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: New Jaffna MP sits in Opposition Leader\u2019s chair, refuses to move"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Controversial Jaffna District MP Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan made headlines on the first day of the new Parliament after taking the seat traditionally allocated for the Leader of the Opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan made headlines earlier this year after raising concerns at the Chavakachcheri Hospital and was later elected to Parliament after contesting independently in the 2024 General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the inaugural session of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka today, the first-time MP assumed the seat of the Leader of the Opposition, refusing to move when requested by a Parliament Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to the Parliament staff, MP Archchuna Ramanathan pointed out that there were no seating arrangements on the first day of the new Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Controversial MP Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan sat in the Opposition Leader\u2019s seat in Parliament and refused to move when asked, didn\u2019t cooperate with the staff, saying, &quot;We changed the tradition.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SriLanka?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SriLanka<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Parliament?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Parliament<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LKA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LKA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SriLankaElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SriLankaElections<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gVMs8cgPik\">pic.twitter.com\/gVMs8cgPik<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sri Lanka Tweet \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@SriLankaTweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SriLankaTweet\/status\/1859483335610991059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Requesting for any announcement stating the allocated seat for the Leader of the Opposition, the MP refused to move from his seat, claiming We have changed the tradition of the Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Controversial Jaffna District MP Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan made headlines on the first day of the new Parliament after taking the seat traditionally allocated for the Leader of the Opposition. Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan made headlines earlier this year after raising concerns at the Chavakachcheri Hospital and was later elected to Parliament after contesting independently [&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-145988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145988","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=145988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}