{"id":151782,"date":"2025-09-02T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151782"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:19:47","slug":"namal-slams-npp-for-using-violence-against-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/02\/namal-slams-npp-for-using-violence-against-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Namal slams NPP for using violence against rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Sept. 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Namal Rajapaksa has accused the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) of resorting to violence and intimidation against other political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, Rajapaksa claimed that members of the Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP), who were formerly associated with the JVP, had faced harassment at the hands of NPP supporters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He alleged that a large group of NPP members had barged into the FLSP office this morning (02) and forcefully taken it over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa warned that such actions threaten the country\u2019s democratic framework. If this is the new system change that the NPP pledged, then Sri Lanka\u2019s democracy is truly at risk and the law and order in shambles where the olden JVP fear will be created once again,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Sept. 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Namal Rajapaksa has accused the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) of resorting to violence and intimidation against other political parties. In a post on X, Rajapaksa claimed that members of the Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP), who were formerly associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151782","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=151782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}