{"id":83513,"date":"2018-11-20T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83513"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:25:37","slug":"karu-to-contest-2020-president-poll-gl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/20\/karu-to-contest-2020-president-poll-gl\/","title":{"rendered":"Karu to contest 2020 President Poll \u2013 GL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"news-meta-holder\">\n<div class=\"news-meta-row pull-left\">\n<h2 class=\"news-meta-item news-meta-text news-meta-author-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANMINI GUNASEKARA\u00a0Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row content-row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 first-col\">\n<div class=\"news-content-holder\">\n<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya\u2019s actions against the President reveal his personal agenda to run for the Presidential Election in 2020, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Professor G. L. Peiris said today (19).<\/p>\n<p>He said this at a Media briefing held at the Party headquarters in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker is putting on a heroic display, not only for the Sri Lankans but for foreign diplomats as well. It\u2019s evident that he\u2019s trying to create for himself an image to satisfy his personal agenda to become the President,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Parliamentarian Rohitha Abeygunawardena added that the No-Confidence Motion (NMC) brought against appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa does not state any reasons for the loss of confidence in the Premier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-main-img\" src=\"http:\/\/site-api.ceylontoday.lk\/uploads\/NewsHeader\/5bf2b6295eca4_5bf28f9c0082e_karujayasuriya.jpg\" width=\"579\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If they are saying they don\u2019t have any confidence in the Prime Minister, then they should give reasons as to why they have lost confidence in him. However, the current NMC does not have any such allegations listed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, when questioned on the most recent brawl in the Parliament, Abeygunawardena justified the actions of the MPs\u2019 saying they were acting on self defence in the face of the Speaker bringing Parliamentary Police personnel inside the Chamber. He further claimed that chilli powder was a harmless substance and alleged that there was a possibility that the Speaker himself brought the said powder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANMINI GUNASEKARA\u00a0Courtesy Ceylon Today Speaker Karu Jayasuriya\u2019s actions against the President reveal his personal agenda to run for the Presidential Election in 2020, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Professor G. L. Peiris said today (19). He said this at a Media briefing held at the Party headquarters in Colombo. The Speaker 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-83513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83513","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=83513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}