{"id":85436,"date":"2019-02-08T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85436"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:10:29","slug":"ranil-the-fighter-the-crook-the-master-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/08\/ranil-the-fighter-the-crook-the-master-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"RANIL- THE FIGHTER, THE CROOK, THE MASTER MIND!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe ( de facto Jayampathy Wickremaratne) cleverly twisted the arms of 212 legislators, with the exception of:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mr Sarath Weerasekera ( of UPFA voting against);<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mr Ajith Kumara (of JVP abstained);<\/p>\n<p>-Messrs Basil Rajapaksa, Premalal Jayasekera, Janaka \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Priyantha Bandara, Dr. Jagath Balasuriya, Keheliya Rambukwella, Ven. Ellawela Medhananda and Susantha Punchinilame ( absent).<\/p>\n<p>3 Members of Parliament who voted for the second reading were absent during the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> reading INCLUDING MR D M JAYARATNE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As was always, our foolish President Sirisena declared the 19 amendment was for the benefit of the\u00a0 future.<\/strong> President MS is now reaping the benefits of the amendment!<\/p>\n<p><strong>After realizing his foolishness, President MS has now suddenly risen from hibernation and acting like a real Commander in Chief, with one eye on the next Presidential candidacy. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By and large, Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe is by far the most shrewd\u00a0 and intelligent politician of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That must be admitted<\/strong>.\u00a0 The problem is his political intelligence runs diagonally opposite \u00a0the national interests.\u00a0 Had he chosen the path of Nationalism, embracing Religion, Culture and Unitary Status at heart, no other politician could have come close to him.<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe ( de facto Jayampathy Wickremaratne) cleverly twisted the arms of 212 legislators, with the exception of: &#8211; Mr Sarath Weerasekera ( of UPFA voting against); &#8211; Mr Ajith Kumara (of JVP abstained); -Messrs Basil Rajapaksa, Premalal Jayasekera, Janaka \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Priyantha Bandara, Dr. Jagath Balasuriya, Keheliya Rambukwella, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85436","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=85436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}