{"id":76327,"date":"2018-04-09T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76327"},"modified":"2018-04-09T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:13:06","slug":"slpp-flays-prez-for-scuttling-no-faith-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/09\/slpp-flays-prez-for-scuttling-no-faith-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPP flays Prez for scuttling no-faith motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Maheesha Mudugamuwa\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday blamed President Maithripala Sirisena for the defeat of what it called the no-confidence battle in Parliament last week. It said the UNP dissidents would definitely have voted for the motion if the President had not scuttled the Joint Opposition\u2019s move to oust the PM, at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the SLPP&#8217;s weekly media briefing, at its headquarters in Battaramulla, SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L Peiris said that the government had lost its two-thirds majority in parliament and there was no way it could go ahead with its constitution-making project.<\/p>\n<p>The SLPP alleged that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had struck a deal with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to get their support to defeat the NCM and the TNA\u2019s conditions were inimical to the national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maheesha Mudugamuwa\u00a0Courtesy The Island The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday blamed President Maithripala Sirisena for the defeat of what it called the no-confidence battle in Parliament last week. It said the UNP dissidents would definitely have voted for the motion if the President had not scuttled the Joint Opposition\u2019s move to oust 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76327","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=76327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}