{"id":147661,"date":"2025-01-30T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147661"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:33:52","slug":"ex-president-ranil-convenes-special-discussion-sjb-mps-also-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/30\/ex-president-ranil-convenes-special-discussion-sjb-mps-also-attend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-President Ranil convenes special discussion; SJB MPs also attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A special political discussion was held this afternoon (30) under the patronage of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe at a private hotel in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to participating political party representatives, the meeting was convened at the request of Mr. Wickremesinghe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives of parties that supported him in the last presidential election were present at the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs Mano Ganesan and Palani Thigambaram also participated in the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other prominent figures in attendance included former Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, Udaya Gammanpila, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Duminda Dissanayake, Kanchana Wijesekera, Sagala Ratnayaka, and Wajira Abeywardana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A special political discussion was held this afternoon (30) under the patronage of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe at a private hotel in Colombo. According to participating political party representatives, the meeting was convened at the request of Mr. Wickremesinghe.&nbsp; Representatives of parties that supported him in the last presidential election were present at [&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-147661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147661","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=147661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}