{"id":40592,"date":"2015-01-04T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T04:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40592"},"modified":"2015-01-04T04:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:28:27","slug":"protect-sirisena-from-assassination-attempts-for-the-good-name-of-sri-lanka-and-rulers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/04\/protect-sirisena-from-assassination-attempts-for-the-good-name-of-sri-lanka-and-rulers\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Sirisena from Assassination Attempts for the Good Name of Sri Lanka and Rulers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sections of the Opposition may make an attempt on the life of Maithripala in the last few days leading up to the election and blame the government. Given the tide he has created, it is a good starting point for the ambitious Opposition politicians to field their own candidate who have been failing all these decades. If such an unfortunate event takes place, the blame will be on the government and the rulers will become unpopular among the people. In addition, the Opposition may also get sympathy votes running into a few hundreds of thousands. Compared to the general UNP cadre and Chandrika, Maithripala is\u00a0the more\u00a0sensible leader among them and his unfortunate demise should not be turned into a political windfall for them.<\/p>\n<p>It will also reflect very badly on Sri Lanka\u2019s image and the UNHRC summit in two months will be a death knell for the nation. It will also be the end of foreign investments and tourism. Billions invested in hotels and other tourist infrastructure will go waste. The nation will plunge into total chaos and people will lose faith in elections.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to General Lucky Algama and General Janaka Perera should not happen to Sirisena as that would drag the nation decades back. Adequate security should be provided to him. All parties to the election must adhere to peaceful conduct and accept whatever the decision voters make. In Sri Lanka\u2019s history there were five (5) instances of voters approving the extension of the rule of the ruling party and there were nine (9) instances of ruling party change. It all happened peacefully without disrupting national security, the democratic tradition of the nation and the freedom of movement. 2015 should not be an exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara\u00a0 Sections of the Opposition may make an attempt on the life of Maithripala in the last few days leading up to the election and blame the government. Given the tide he has created, it is a good starting point for the ambitious Opposition politicians to field their own candidate who have been failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40592","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=40592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}