{"id":82760,"date":"2018-11-04T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82760"},"modified":"2018-11-04T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:24:54","slug":"rw-under-pressure-to-hand-over-unp-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/04\/rw-under-pressure-to-hand-over-unp-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"RW under pressure to hand over UNP crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe is under severe pressure to hand over leadership of the UNP,\u00a0<em>Ceylon Today\u00a0<\/em>reliably learns.<\/p>\n<p>UNP sources said a number of senior former Ministers had met Wickremesinghe at Temple Trees today and told him in no uncertain terms that \u00a0a \u2018fresh face\u2019 was the need of the hour if the UNP is to be victorious in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sajith Premadasa was suggested to be the new face to the UNP as his speech received rapturous applause. The massive crowd that \u00a0thronged the vicinity in Colpetty a few days ago protesting the ouster of Wickremesinghe broke into thunderous applause the moment Premadasa took the stage, giving a clear indication that Ranil should hand over leadership to young Premadasa, sources who witnessed the episode said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Ranil Wickremesinghe is under severe pressure to hand over leadership of the UNP,\u00a0Ceylon Today\u00a0reliably learns. UNP sources said a number of senior former Ministers had met Wickremesinghe at Temple Trees today and told him in no uncertain terms that \u00a0a \u2018fresh face\u2019 was the need of the hour if the UNP is [&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-82760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82760","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=82760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}