{"id":46761,"date":"2015-08-10T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T03:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46761"},"modified":"2015-08-10T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:50:09","slug":"political-frogs-of-upfa-need-to-publish-a-list-of-pro-mahinda-candidates-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/10\/political-frogs-of-upfa-need-to-publish-a-list-of-pro-mahinda-candidates-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL FROGS OF UPFA \u2013 NEED TO PUBLISH A LIST OF PRO MAHINDA CANDIDATES IMMEDIATELY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On 8 Aug during a massive rally at the Kottawa Junction, the President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 for the first time warned his supporters to exercise restrain in giving preferential vote to those candidates who are likely to change sides after winning their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The voter education is therefore is a responsibility of the organisers at the grass root level .<\/p>\n<p>The average voter has\u00a0 to concentrate on several issues relating to his family, rather than getting\u00a0 involved in political cocktails.\u00a0 The average voter is likely to identify anyone with the logo of betel leaf as a\u00a0\u00a0 Pro MR candidate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore\u00a0 media campaign should be undertaken by the UPFA organisers, to publish a list of Pro MR candidates, excluding the\u00a0\u00a0 names of those candidates whose names have been included at the instigation of President Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have seen candidates such as Wijethamuni Soyza, Nandimithra Ekanayake, Janaka Bandra Tennakoon already publicly apologising to the President Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 But how about others, such as Mohanlal Grero, Thilanga Sumathipala, Duminda Dissanayake, Upeksha Swarnamali, Pavithra Wanniarrachchi, Mahinda Samrasinghe? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many more others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE On 8 Aug during a massive rally at the Kottawa Junction, the President Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 for the first time warned his supporters to exercise restrain in giving preferential vote to those candidates who are likely to change sides after winning their seats. The voter education is therefore is a responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761","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=46761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}