{"id":40515,"date":"2015-01-02T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40515"},"modified":"2015-01-02T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:53:11","slug":"can-people-trust-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/02\/can-people-trust-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"Can people trust Sirisena ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The request from Hakeem, leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, for a separate Administrative District was rejected by the govt and he\u00a0 joined Sirisena. Because obviously he had agreed to this. But he says that there was no agreement on this . Can\u00a0 people trust him?<\/p>\n<p>TNA MP Suresh Premachandran addressing the media before the announcement to support Sirisena had said, &#8216;The prospective candidate we decide to back, should compromise to withdraw the army from the North and the East&#8230;&#8217; Therefore, Sirisena would have definitely agreed to this request as well. However this week, speaking to the Diplomatic Community he had said, &#8216;I will not withdraw the army from Jaffna&#8230; I have never said such a thing..&#8217; Can people trust him?<\/p>\n<p>In the 2010 Presidential elections, Sarath Fonseka declared that the war was won due to his efforts. Now Sirisena maintains that it was he who won the war because he was the Acting Defence Minister during the last two weeks of the war and claims that the victory over the LTTE\u00a0 is due to his efforts. Then, Sirisena was proposed as a Common Opposition Candidate by Chandrika and she claims that 75 per cent of the war was won by her ! So now there are so many claiming for the war victory. But the people know that it was Mahinda Rajapakse who gave the leadership for the war effort.<\/p>\n<p>Calling himself the\u00a0 &#8216;Consensus candidate&#8217; for the joint opposition, Sirisena says that he will abolish the Executive Presidency within 100 days and hand over to Ranil who will be the Executive Prime Minister. The question is , &#8216;Is Sirisena doing all this hard work to win the elections just to hand over the govt to Ranil and go to retirement? Can people trust him? Chandrika after nine years in retirement came back to politics because there are plums in it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne The request from Hakeem, leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, for a separate Administrative District was rejected by the govt and he\u00a0 joined Sirisena. Because obviously he had agreed to this. But he says that there was no agreement on this . Can\u00a0 people trust him? TNA MP Suresh Premachandran addressing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40515","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=40515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}