{"id":70538,"date":"2017-10-10T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70538"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:21:54","slug":"decision-on-constitution-will-change-the-fate-of-sl-weerawansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/10\/decision-on-constitution-will-change-the-fate-of-sl-weerawansa\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision on constitution will change the fate of SL \u2013 Weerawansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/12\/sanchith-karunaratna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanchith Karunaratna\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Courtesy adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>Leader of the National Freedom Front Wimal Weerawansa stated that the decision made by the people on the proposed constitutional amendments will change the fate of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at Mattegoda, Wimal Weerawansa stated that the current government is in the process of formulating a constitution that is detrimental to the people of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile MP Dullas Alahapperuma stated that 20% of Sri Lankan parliamentarians were not able to secure their seats through public votes.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that Sri Lanka is the only country that appoints such individuals as Ministers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Decision on constitution will change the fate of SL - Weerawansa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lBvgbghLpD4?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Sanchith Karunaratna\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy adaderana Leader of the National Freedom Front Wimal Weerawansa stated that the decision made by the people on the proposed constitutional amendments will change the fate of Sri Lanka. Speaking to the media at Mattegoda, Wimal Weerawansa stated that the current government is in the process of formulating a constitution that is detrimental [&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-70538","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\/70538","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=70538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}