{"id":74696,"date":"2018-02-12T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74696"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:21:02","slug":"rest-slfp-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/12\/rest-slfp-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest SLFP in peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lionel Rajapakse<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Electorate has spoken. There is a clear message to politicians who still keep alliance with SLFP. Leave SLFP now\u201d. Yes, right now. Feb 10 election results proved people don\u2019t care about the future of the SLFP and they do not trust the SLFP leadership any more. Hope, politicos who play a double game understand this clear message and honour people\u2019s wish.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a secret, most of the SLPP politicians still have their SLFP membership. For the sake of what? There is no need for these politicians to play a double game from now on. If they still think it is a risk to cut their ties with the SLFP, that is an insult for the millions of voters who voted for SLPP. Voters clearly said, they are ready to support for a third force. If these politicians who still have ties with SLFP thinks it is impossible to form a government without SLFP, this election proved they are wrong. Also, someone can argue if these politicos give up their SLFP memberships, they are going lose their parliament membership as well. Who cares. Voters like to see the leaders who play the game straight. So, the politicians in SLPP who still keep a foot in the rotten SLFP, should come out of that muddy puddle right now.<\/p>\n<p>Same with the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). It is high time for Dinesh, Wimal, Wasu and rest of the members to come out of this so-called Alliance. People clearly rejected President Sirisena\u2019s leadership, so what kind of alliance with a party led by him? Now the electorate has chosen a new front to fight the UNP. So, let the Sirisena\u2019s SLFP to have its own demise.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 10 election is a good signal for the JVP as well. Now they should realise their dream to capture the power in 2020 is not real. Rather than supporting their real enemy UNP, JVP should re-consider where they should stand. If they want to make their dream a reality, it is better to let Ranil\u2019s UNP to have the same fate as the Sirisena\u2019s SLFP.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this election result is the amber light given by the SLPP voters for their next presidential candidate, whoever that person is.\u00a0 No need to play hide and seek. That person should come forward and lead this third force for the next victory.<\/p>\n<p>Jayawewa!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Rajapakse Electorate has spoken. There is a clear message to politicians who still keep alliance with SLFP. Leave SLFP now\u201d. Yes, right now. Feb 10 election results proved people don\u2019t care about the future of the SLFP and they do not trust the SLFP leadership any more. Hope, politicos who play a double game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696","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=74696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}