{"id":153933,"date":"2025-12-31T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153933"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:11:01","slug":"colombo-municipal-councillors-party-membership-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/31\/colombo-municipal-councillors-party-membership-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo municipal councillor&#8217;s party membership suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) suspended the party membership of Colombo Municipal&nbsp;CouncillorSohra&nbsp;Buhari with immediate effect after she voted in&nbsp;favour&nbsp;of the Colombo Municipal Council budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Party General Secretary Nizam&nbsp;Kariapper&nbsp;issued a letter stating that party leader&nbsp;Rauff&nbsp;Hakeem personally instructed opposition members to vote against the budget proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SLMC identifies the decision to ignore these directives as a serious breach of party discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) suspended the party membership of Colombo Municipal&nbsp;CouncillorSohra&nbsp;Buhari with immediate effect after she voted in&nbsp;favour&nbsp;of the Colombo Municipal Council budget. Party General Secretary Nizam&nbsp;Kariapper&nbsp;issued a letter stating that party leader&nbsp;Rauff&nbsp;Hakeem personally instructed opposition members to vote against the budget proposal. The SLMC identifies the decision to ignore [&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-153933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153933","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=153933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153934,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153933\/revisions\/153934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}