{"id":47112,"date":"2015-08-19T04:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47112"},"modified":"2015-08-19T04:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:17:22","slug":"pro-sirisena-revisionists-who-were-not-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/19\/pro-sirisena-revisionists-who-were-not-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Sirisena revisionists who were not elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The following United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) heavy weights who were strongly supporting Sirisen\u2019s destructive and vicious campaign against his own party and who kept on pulling MR\u2019s leg at every move were not re-elected according to the results announced today.<\/p>\n<p>S.B. Dissanayake,<br \/>\nLakshman Seneviratne,<br \/>\nLakshman Yapa Abeywardane<br \/>\nMahinda Samarasinghe<br \/>\nGamini Wijith Wijeyamuni Zoysa<br \/>\nJagath Pushpakumara<br \/>\nNandimithra Ekanayake<br \/>\nRohana Kumara Dissanayake<br \/>\nTissa Karaliyadda<\/p>\n<p>Among the others who failed in their bid for re-election were former deputy minister of Water Supply and Drainage, Nirupama Rajapaksa who contested from the Hambantota district, former minister Piyasena Gamage who contested from the Galle and former MPs Chamika Buddhadasa, Udith Lokubandara and Dr. Rohana Pushpakumara.<\/p>\n<p>Former ministers W.B. Ekanayake who contested from the Anuradhapura district and former MP C.A. Sooriyarachchi who contested from the Polonnaruwa district were not re-elected either.<\/p>\n<p>Upeksha Swarnamali who contested for the General Elections from the UPFA in Gampaha district, former Deputy Minister of Skills Development and Vocational Training Thilanga Sumathipala contested from the UPFA in Colombo district and former State Minister of Children\u2019s Affairs Rosy Senanayake contested from the UNP in Colombo district were among those who were not re-elected at the election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News The following United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) heavy weights who were strongly supporting Sirisen\u2019s destructive and vicious campaign against his own party and who kept on pulling MR\u2019s leg at every move were not re-elected according to the results announced today. S.B. Dissanayake, Lakshman Seneviratne, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardane Mahinda Samarasinghe Gamini Wijith Wijeyamuni [&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-47112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47112","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=47112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}