{"id":72105,"date":"2017-11-27T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72105"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:53:47","slug":"slpp-blast-first-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/27\/slpp-blast-first-salvo\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPP BLAST FIRST SALVO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">During past several days and weeks, the Prez. Maithreepala made frantic efforts to stich a no-contest deal with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.\u00a0 Instead of rejecting outright any discussions, Prez Mahinda Rajapakse appointed Committees to negotiate with the SLFP.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Unbeknown to political pundits, this time Prez Mahinda Rajapakse played the cards very close to his heart.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whilst the discussions are still in progress with the SLFP by the Committee appointed by SLPP, <b>the SLPP made all preparations to finalise its candidates and get ready for the deposits\u00a0 at major centre.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">This has stunned the SLFP group, the determination of Prez Mahinda Rajapakse to provide leadership in\u00a0 a crisis situation must be applauded.\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the country can now continue to march forward under the leadership of SLPP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">If SLPP wins majority Local Governments, it will tarnish the authority of Prez. Maithreepala to a great extent.\u00a0 Such a scenario will also provide sufficient ground work for the UNP to undermine the powers of the President Maithreepala. \u00a0\u00a0The President will be marginalized, his power will be eroded and he will further be isolated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">On the Local Government Election platform, SLPP should explore all avenues to defeat the proposed Constitution plans and turn the election into a virtual referendum on it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE During past several days and weeks, the Prez. Maithreepala made frantic efforts to stich a no-contest deal with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.\u00a0 Instead of rejecting outright any discussions, Prez Mahinda Rajapakse appointed Committees to negotiate with the SLFP.\u00a0 Unbeknown to political pundits, this time Prez Mahinda Rajapakse played 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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105","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=72105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}