{"id":62508,"date":"2017-01-18T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62508"},"modified":"2017-01-18T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:18:26","slug":"while-sinhalese-sleep-they-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/18\/while-sinhalese-sleep-they-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"WHILE SINHALESE  SLEEP THEY CREEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Discussions have taken place to field him under Mahinda\u2019s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (flower bud symbol), but president Maithripala Sirisena has agreed that he should contest as the SLFP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The main among the LG bodies in Sri Lanka, the CMC\u2019s dealings are second only to parliament and it has long been considered a fortress of power of the UNP. Kamil was its mayor representing the UNP. First elected its member in 1979, he counts a longstanding service and is a very popular figure in the municipality area. Mahinda appointed him as the key administrator in 2006 and 2009 as the municipal commissioner in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>At discussions among Mahinda loyalists about their candidate for the CMC, most proposed the name of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. However, Mahinda opposed, saying We are not the majority community in the Colombo municipal area. It is the Muslims. All the Muslims are against Gota. Muslims Will Vote for a Muslim Therefore, Gota will not do. We should field Omar Kamil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/omar-kamil.jpg\" alt=\"omar kamil\" width=\"570\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/omar-kamil.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/omar-kamil-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UNP is reportedly going to field former Mrs. World and ex-MP Rosie Senanayake as its Colombo mayoral candidate. Political analysts say the UNP will ask for it by fielding her against a\u00a0 Muslim figure like Kamil.<\/p>\n<p>SINHALESE ARE A MINORITY IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE\u00a0ONLY COUNTRY THEY CAN CALL THEIR HOME.TIME TO WAKE UP OR GO DOWN UNDER.<\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO\u00a0 BATTICALOA MANNAR \u00a0JAFFNA KALMUNAI \u00a0VAVUNIA\u00a0 CHAVAKACHERI\u00a0 PUTTALAM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0KATTANKUDY ERAVUR\u00a0AND \u00a0THE LIST OF TOWNS AND CITIES TAKEN OVER\u00a0 AND WITH NO GO AREAS\u00a0KEEP RISING.\u00a0WHILEST TOWN AND CITIES\u00a0DENIED TO \u00a0SINHALESE\u00a0 KEEPS GROWING.<\/p>\n<p>WITH MANY MORE MATALE MAWANELLA KEGALLE WELIGAMA GAMPOLA KURUNEGALA ON THE DANGER LIST.<\/p>\n<p>SINHALESE SACRIFICED THEIR LIFE AND LIMB\u00a0 AND LIBERATED THE COUNTRY FOR OTHERS TO REAP THE BENEFITS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA Discussions have taken place to field him under Mahinda\u2019s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (flower bud symbol), but president Maithripala Sirisena has agreed that he should contest as the SLFP candidate. The main among the LG bodies in Sri Lanka, the CMC\u2019s dealings are second only to parliament and it has long been considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62508","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=62508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}