{"id":59797,"date":"2016-10-15T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T05:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59797"},"modified":"2016-10-15T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:22:47","slug":"puravasi-balaya-controlled-by-a-handfull-of-opportunists-has-turned-out-to-become-a-political-thug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/15\/puravasi-balaya-controlled-by-a-handfull-of-opportunists-has-turned-out-to-become-a-political-thug\/","title":{"rendered":"PURAVASI BALAYA CONTROLLED BY A HANDFULL OF OPPORTUNISTS HAS TURNED OUT TO BECOME A POLITICAL THUG."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>By Noor Nizam &#8211; Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener &#8211; The Muslim Voice&#8221;. Oct.15th., 2016.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Can the Puravasi Balaya publish the names of the Civil Society Groups\/organizations and individuals that originally formed this movement under the leader of the late Thera Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, who was The chief incumbent of the Kotte Naga.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times it is witnessed that almost 90 % of the Civil Society Groups and persons who were with the late Thera and who joined the stage at Hyde Park on Tuesday the 2nd., December 2014 have abandoned the present Puravasi Balaya Leadership because a hand full of certain individuals like Co-Convener Saman Rathnapriya, Prof. Sarath Wijeysuriya, Ravaya editor K.W. Janaranjana, Gamini Viyangoda are undemocratically steering this movement for their personal political agenda and holding to ransom the &#8220;Yahapalana government under the pretext of safeguarding the rights of the people\/voters, while they indirectly benefited from the President and the PM and are lobbying for &#8220;anti-people&#8221; activities blackmailing the government appearing as the saviours of TRUE DEMOCRACY.<\/p>\n<p>It is the duty of the peace loving people of this country and the patriots who love their &#8220;Maathruboomiya&#8221; be vigilant of this situation and defend the country and the nation from the political disaster a hand full of so-called &#8220;Civil Society&#8221; elements who are up to political mischief for their personal glory and gains at the cost of the sacrifice made by our Security Forces personnel and our Ranaviru.<\/p>\n<p>The Puravasi Balaya cannot be allowed to run this country and dictate terms and conditions to the Executive President and the Prime Minister or the Cabinet of Ministers or Parliament, for that purpose. It is NOT the VOICE of the people, but just a hand full of\u00a0individuals and a small ad-hoc group of some civil society organizations for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noor Nizam &#8211; Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener &#8211; The Muslim Voice&#8221;. Oct.15th., 2016. Can the Puravasi Balaya publish the names of the Civil Society Groups\/organizations and individuals that originally formed this movement under the leader of the late Thera Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, who was The chief incumbent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59797","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=59797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}