{"id":83288,"date":"2018-11-15T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83288"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:32:48","slug":"knife-brandishing-complaint-lodged-against-ranjan-palitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/15\/knife-brandishing-complaint-lodged-against-ranjan-palitha\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife brandishing: Complaint lodged against Ranjan, Palitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The government yesterday said it had lodged a complaint with the police over UNP MPs Ranjan Ramanayake and Palitha Thewarapperuma who had allegedly threatened government MPs in Parliament with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Govt. MP Indika Anuruddha said a complaint has been lodged with the police post at the Parliamentary complex.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ranjan Ramanayake and Palitha Thewarapperuma threatened me with a knife inside the chamber. When I brought Speaker\u2019s attention to this, he said not knives but swords should be brought in because of the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1542303526-4be37ae981.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is unacceptable. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s seat was a few rows away from these unruly MPs. This was a threat to all MPs. Therefore, we lodged the complaint with the police,\u201d he told a news briefing held at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>MP Johnston Fernando said the MPs who allegedly threatened others with a knife should be arrested. We have to find out how a knife was brought into parliament. We will bring this issue to the attention of both the President and IGP as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government yesterday said it had lodged a complaint with the police over UNP MPs Ranjan Ramanayake and Palitha Thewarapperuma who had allegedly threatened government MPs in Parliament with a knife. Govt. MP Indika Anuruddha said a complaint has been lodged with the police post at the Parliamentary complex. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83288","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=83288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}