{"id":82446,"date":"2018-10-27T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82446"},"modified":"2018-10-27T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T17:06:53","slug":"ranil-gone-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/27\/ranil-gone-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil &#8211; Gone at last !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b><u><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr.P.A.Samaraweera<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">In January 2015, President Sirisena appointed Ranil as the PM when he had only 42 seats in Parliament. Mr. D.M. Jayaratne who was PM at the time backed away, for what ever reason. Now Ranil had been paid back\u00a0in the same coin. After he was sacked, he had summoned the Ambassadors and High Commissioners, and like a child\u00a0in tears had pleaded to them that it is foul. Obviously, he is trying to get their sympathy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Looking at his track record,\u00a0his best friend Mahendra is responsible for robbing the Central Bank.\u00a0Not once but twice. If not for President Sirisena, he would have swept it under the carpet.\u00a0Now Ranil should be taken to task for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">During the last three and a half years, the LTTE supporters in the North backed by the\u00a0Tamil diaspora had their own way. They carried Prabhakaran&#8217;s cut outs at festivals and parades, harassed Sinhala students at the University when they tried to bring in a\u00a0Buddha statute during the last Wesak, celebrated Prabhakaran&#8217;s birthday and \u00a0so on. And \u00a0Ranil&#8217;s govt was silent about these\u00a0on the pretext of reconciliation. During Ranil&#8217;s regime,\u00a0the Police doing various investigations arrested the &#8220;Rana viruvos&#8221; and they had been remanded indefinitely. There was a time when the UNP leaders ridiculed the war and the last few years followed it by harassing the war veterans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">However, Ranil&#8217;s name should go to the Guiness Book of Records for (a) Losing more than 20 elections at a stretch (b) Getting sacked twice while being Prime Minister. Once when Chandrika Bandaranaike was President and then\u00a0sacked for the second time by President Sirisena. This time hopefully, he and his torch bearer&#8217;s\u00a0go for ever. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.P.A.Samaraweera In January 2015, President Sirisena appointed Ranil as the PM when he had only 42 seats in Parliament. Mr. D.M. Jayaratne who was PM at the time backed away, for what ever reason. Now Ranil had been paid back\u00a0in the same coin. After he was sacked, he had summoned the Ambassadors and High Commissioners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82446","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=82446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}