{"id":153421,"date":"2025-12-03T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153421"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:52:26","slug":"sjb-to-take-action-against-kandy-councillors-for-blocking-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/03\/sjb-to-take-action-against-kandy-councillors-for-blocking-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"SJB to take action against Kandy Councillors for blocking relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colombo, Dec. 3 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will take strict disciplinary action against members of the Kandy Municipal Council who reportedly obstructed relief efforts by volunteers in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the party, Premadasa apologised to residents affected by the councillors\u2019 actions. On behalf of the SJB, I sincerely apologise to those who may have been hurt by the bad behaviour and unwarranted actions of those Municipal Councillors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred at a relief collection centre set up by volunteers to assist residents impacted by severe flooding and landslides in Kandy. Some opposition councillors allegedly attempted to block the operation, prompting public criticism.<\/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\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjbsrilanka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sjbsrilanka<\/a> will take strict disciplinary action against those members of the Kandy Municipal Council who objected and obstructed the provision of relief by Soome and his team of volunteers. On behalf of the SJB, I sincerely apologise to those who may have been hurt by the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cH8gO03qUw\">pic.twitter.com\/cH8gO03qUw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sajith Premadasa (@sajithpremadasa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sajithpremadasa\/status\/1996199301903765839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, Dec. 3 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will take strict disciplinary action against members of the Kandy Municipal Council who reportedly obstructed relief efforts by volunteers in the district. Speaking on behalf of the party, Premadasa apologised to residents affected by the councillors\u2019 actions. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153421","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=153421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153424,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153421\/revisions\/153424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}