{"id":73477,"date":"2018-01-05T20:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73477"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:12:33","slug":"jo-to-move-no-confidence-motion-against-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/05\/jo-to-move-no-confidence-motion-against-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"JO to move no-confidence motion against PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Anura Balasuriya\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>National Freedom Front leader MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday said that the Joint Opposition (JO) would move a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the treasury bond scams.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media at a press conference held at the NM Perera Centre in Borella, MP Weerawansa said the JO leaders would meet on Sunday to decide on the content of the no-confidence motion to be moved against the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Weerawansa said the treasury bond scam was the biggest ever fraud in the country\u2019s history and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was on the top of the list of persons responsible for it. The PM could not absolve himself from the crime by trying to find a scapegoat in former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, Weerawansa said.<\/p>\n<p>The NFF leader said the Prime Minister and other ministers responsible for the bond scam had no moral right to hold their portfolios further and they should resign forthwith If they did not resign then President Maithripala Sirisena had to remove them, the NFF leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anura Balasuriya\u00a0Courtesy The Island National Freedom Front leader MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday said that the Joint Opposition (JO) would move a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the treasury bond scams. Addressing the media at a press conference held at the NM Perera Centre in Borella, MP Weerawansa said the JO [&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-73477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73477","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=73477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}