{"id":58877,"date":"2016-09-18T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58877"},"modified":"2016-09-18T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:18:32","slug":"we-are-opposed-to-any-type-of-federalism-jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/18\/we-are-opposed-to-any-type-of-federalism-jo\/","title":{"rendered":"We are opposed to any type of federalism: JO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"well well-lg\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Kelum Bandara\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>In the wake of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga calling for a Federal and Quasi-Secular Constitution for Sri Lanka, the joint opposition (JO) said it was totally opposed to \u2018Federalism\u2019 as a means to resolving the national question.<\/p>\n<p>JO parliamentary group leader Dinesh Gunawardane said yesterday they met to discuss the issues concerning the country at large.<\/p>\n<p>He said the JO had noted the statements made by Ms. Kumaratunga call for a Federal and Quasi-Secular Constitution for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Federalism will result in the disintegration and partition of the country,\u201d the MP said and added that the JO stood for a unitary constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Kumaratunga said at a recent function that Federalism as concept had been accepted in several countries and there was no need to be frightened about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/115962\/We-are-opposed-to-any-type-of-federalism-JO#sthash.huP3XJK8.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Kelum Bandara\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror\u00a0 In the wake of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga calling for a Federal and Quasi-Secular Constitution for Sri Lanka, the joint opposition (JO) said it was totally opposed to \u2018Federalism\u2019 as a means to resolving the national question. JO parliamentary group leader Dinesh Gunawardane said yesterday they met to discuss the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58877","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=58877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}