{"id":149815,"date":"2025-05-26T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149815"},"modified":"2025-05-26T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:18:41","slug":"does-npp-use-businessmen-as-proxies-to-bribe-parties-to-secure-cmc-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/05\/26\/does-npp-use-businessmen-as-proxies-to-bribe-parties-to-secure-cmc-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Does NPP use businessmen as proxies to bribe parties to secure CMC control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 26 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A group of businessmen has come forward to fund parties in an attempt to woo members to form the administration of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), particularly on behalf of the ruling National Party (NPP), a Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP alleged yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SJB Colombo District MP Mujibur Rahman told the Daily Mirror that some businessmen supporting the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) had offered cash inducements. We are making this allegation with full responsibility,\u201d he said, alleging that the NPP is attempting to woo several independent groups that secured seats in the CMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five independent groups won seats at this year\u2019s local government election. Independent Group 1 secured one seat, Group 2 one seat, Group 3 three seats, Group 4 two seats, and Group 5 two seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Rahman said Independent Group 5, which secured two seats, had pledged to support the opposition led by the SJB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, May 26 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A group of businessmen has come forward to fund parties in an attempt to woo members to form the administration of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), particularly on behalf of the ruling National Party (NPP), a Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP alleged yesterday. SJB Colombo District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149815","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=149815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}