{"id":58427,"date":"2016-09-06T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58427"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:03:22","slug":"ms-a-terminator-sent-by-unp-phu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/06\/ms-a-terminator-sent-by-unp-phu\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena a Terminator sent by UNP- PHU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"well well-lg\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0<strong>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0<\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>The decision of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to contest the local government elections by on its own might backfire, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said today.<\/p>\n<p>PHU General Secretary MP Udaya Gammanpila said it was not the practice of the SLFP to form a Government alone.<\/p>\n<p>Except in 1991, the SLFP lost whenever it contested at elections by itself. That party always went ahead with the backing of other progressive political parties,\u201d he told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>During the 65th Anniversary of the SLFP, which was held on Sunday, President Maithripala Sirisena, the Chairman of the SLFP, said that they would contest the upcoming elections for the local government bodies alone.<\/p>\n<p>The PHU and several other parties, including the National Freedom Front (NFF) and the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), contested the previous Parliamentary elections under United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) ticket in which the main constituent is the SLFP.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the new development, MP Gammanpila said President Sirisena was a \u2018Terminator\u2019 sent by the United National Party (UNP) to destroy the SLFP.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to contest alone is the final nail on the coffin of the SLFP. The entire situation is similar to the Hollywood movie Terminator, where an alien was sent on a destructive mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the impact the new decision would make on PHU, he said they would not accept invitations extended by the President to join.<\/p>\n<p>We joined the UPFA to form a government but one faction formed a coalition with the UNP instead. We are not ready to commit the same mistake twice,\u201d Gammanpila said.<em><strong> (Lahiru Pothmulla)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkpJCHmenr4?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Video by Janaka<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/115354\/MS-a-Terminator-sent-by-UNP-PHU#sthash.P0U3Lj5o.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror The decision of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to contest the local government elections by on its own might backfire, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said today. PHU General Secretary MP Udaya Gammanpila said it was not the practice of the SLFP to form a Government alone. Except in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58427","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=58427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}