{"id":43226,"date":"2015-04-18T21:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43226"},"modified":"2015-04-18T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T20:28:14","slug":"ranil-must-be-pm-i-am-ordered-to-do-so-by-india-west-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/18\/ranil-must-be-pm-i-am-ordered-to-do-so-by-india-west-president-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil must be PM , I am ordered to do so by India &#038; West : President Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>April 16, Colombo: President Maithripala Sirisena has told the party leaders of the Peoples&#8217; Alliance that he has no choice but to appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka after the next General Election.<\/p>\n<p>According to our sources , President has explained that whether\u00a0 the Peoples&#8217; Alliance wins the election or not ,\u00a0 he is ordered to appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe as the Prime Minister by India and the West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; You don&#8217;t know the pressure excreted on me by India and West , they trust only Ranil &#8221; , he said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held at the President&#8217;s official residence on 16 April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This explains the helpless and desperate political situation that people of Sri Lanka are now in. The government they elected can no longer be called their government . It has degraded itself\u00a0 to puppet government more interested in serving the foreign powers than its own people.<\/p>\n<p>The current government of Sri Lanka has been established without a mandate of the people. There is no opposition to represent the people who did not vote for President Sirisena. Efforts are being taken to introduce a crucial amendment to the constitution without obtaining the consent of the people. The peoples sovereignty has been lost .<\/p>\n<p>Please share this information if you respect Democracy in Sri Lanka .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NHbZc7tTnkA\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/NHbZc7tTnkA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News April 16, Colombo: President Maithripala Sirisena has told the party leaders of the Peoples&#8217; Alliance that he has no choice but to appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka after the next General Election. According to our sources , President has explained that whether\u00a0 the Peoples&#8217; Alliance wins the election [&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-43226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226","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=43226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}