{"id":147564,"date":"2025-01-24T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147564"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:31:19","slug":"dilith-jayaweera-says-govt-is-covering-up-every-issue-with-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/24\/dilith-jayaweera-says-govt-is-covering-up-every-issue-with-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilith Jayaweera says govt is covering up every issue with fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Leader of the \u2018Sarvajana Balaya\u2019, Member of Parliament Dilith Jayaweera claims that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is currently facing a challenge from within its own people within a very short period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also accused the ruling party of now covering up everything with fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Jayaweera made this statement while speaking at a press conference held at the \u2018Sarvajana Balaya\u2019 alliance\u2019s headquarters this afternoon (24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the PM\u2019s speech in Parliament yesterday, he added: The Prime Minister says that only one person has been given a government vehicle, but MP Chamara claims that all the vehicles are at Madiwela (MPs\u2019 housing complex). I too have seen them arriving at Parliament in vehicles.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the decision to increase the price of meals provided at the parliament canteen, the MP said that one cannot eat three meals a day for a sum of Rs. 2,000 even if one buys lunch parcels from a small roadside shop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Minister Bimal Rathnayake stated, a fee should be charged that is cost reflective. Rs. 2,000 is not the cost. I have seen that buffet. I believe an accurate calculation should be made so the public is not misled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the \u2018Sarvajana Balaya\u2019, Member of Parliament Dilith Jayaweera claims that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is currently facing a challenge from within its own people within a very short period of time. He also accused the ruling party of now covering up everything with fiction. MP Jayaweera made this statement while [&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-147564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147564","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=147564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}