{"id":89172,"date":"2019-05-21T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89172"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:42:24","slug":"wimal-blasts-jvp-over-no-confidence-motion-against-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/21\/wimal-blasts-jvp-over-no-confidence-motion-against-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimal blasts JVP over no-confidence motion against govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>National Freedom Front (NFF) leader MP Wimal Weerawansa today criticized his former party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, for the motion of no-confidence brought forth by them against the incumbent government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to reporters after meeting with the Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith in Colombo, he said that they briefed the religious leader on the no-confidence motion brought against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0da2\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dd9 \u0dad\u0dd4\u0da7\u0dca\u0da7\u0dd4 \u0daf\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dda \u0d9a\u0dc5\u0dda \u0dbb\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca \u0d87\u0db3\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1-\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dbd\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wh0wbCmWCYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that when a no-confidence motion is brought against the government at this juncture, the MPs of the ruling party will be looking at Rishad Bathiudeen with the intention of safeguarding the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the 6-7 parliamentarians of Rishad\u2019s party &#8211; the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) \u2013 would be a decisive factor in a no-confidence motion against the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weerawansa said that when two no-confidence motions are brought forth in this manner, Minister Rishad Bathiudeen gains a \u2018bargaining power\u2019 and that he could now tell ruling party MPs that he will not use his party\u2019s votes to save the government if they don\u2019t safeguard him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He charged that by bringing a no-confidence motion against the government, the JVP has given Rishad Bathiudeen a decisive power and a bargaining power. He also accused them of thereby safeguarding a father of Wahhabi terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana National Freedom Front (NFF) leader MP Wimal Weerawansa today criticized his former party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, for the motion of no-confidence brought forth by them against the incumbent government. Speaking to reporters after meeting with the Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith in Colombo, he said that they briefed the religious leader on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89172","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=89172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}