{"id":92470,"date":"2019-08-22T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92470"},"modified":"2019-08-22T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:59:28","slug":"opposition-leader-says-division-in-the-unp-cannot-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/22\/opposition-leader-says-division-in-the-unp-cannot-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader says division in the UNP cannot be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa says that nobody can stop the separation of the UNP whoever it will field for the forthcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at a meeting with local government institution representatives held at the SLPP headquarters in Battaramulla today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the gathering, the Presidential candidate of the Joint Opposition led by the SLPP, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa says that the process of renunciation of his US citizenship has been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, all MPs of the Joint Opposition have been called for an emergency meeting to be held at the SLPP headquarters in Battaramulla this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gotabhaya Rajapaksa policy statement is scheduled to be discussed during this meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a group of SLFP MPs participated in a dinner hosted by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa last night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d91\u0da2\u0dcf\u0db4\u0dba \u0daf\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0da9\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8 \u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dd3\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zxrRpxta-Y?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa says that nobody can stop the separation of the UNP whoever it will field for the forthcoming presidential election. He was speaking at a meeting with local government institution representatives held at the SLPP headquarters in Battaramulla today. Addressing the gathering, the Presidential candidate of the Joint Opposition led [&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-92470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92470","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=92470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}