{"id":63460,"date":"2017-02-16T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63460"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:45:07","slug":"rathana-thero-has-no-right-to-remain-as-an-independent-mp-ranawaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/16\/rathana-thero-has-no-right-to-remain-as-an-independent-mp-ranawaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathana Thero has no right to remain as an independent MP &#8211; Ranawaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8211; By Binoy Suriyaarachchi\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero does not have right to remain as an independent Parliamentarian, Minister Champika Ranawaka said.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to reporters in Colombo, the Minister said the Thero should instead resign from his position. After resigning, he can make any statements of his choice,\u201d Ranawaka said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also went on to say the JHU could not anyway achieve what it expected from Rathana Thero who became a Parliamentarian through the national list in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rathana Thero has no right to remain as an independent MP - Ranawaka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/96jJYnz1_lI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"newsItemComplete\">\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span class=\"st_sharethis\"><span class=\"stButton\"><span class=\"chicklets sharethis\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>He also pointed out they had doubts about the Thero since he had several rounds of meetings with former Minister Basil Rajapaksa, brother of the former President, following the last Presidential election.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>However, he had agreed to go ahead with party\u2019s stance,\u201d Ranawaka said. A plan is underway to restructure the JHU under three phrases; to empower women, implement a new process among the workforce and form a youth front, he also said.<\/p>\n<p>Ranawaka underlined the JHU would not hesitate to hold its own views on \u2018serious cases\u2019 such as drafting of the new Constitution and issues relating to the controversial bond sale, despite being a part of the coalition government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39134\/rathana-thero-has-no-right-to-remain-as-an-independent-mp-ranawaka#sthash.LQHo1kYp.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; By Binoy Suriyaarachchi\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero does not have right to remain as an independent Parliamentarian, Minister Champika Ranawaka said. While speaking to reporters in Colombo, the Minister said the Thero should instead resign from his position. After resigning, he can make any statements of his choice,\u201d Ranawaka said. The Minister also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63460","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=63460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}