{"id":92984,"date":"2019-09-14T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92984"},"modified":"2019-09-14T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:35:45","slug":"wijeyadasa-to-quit-politics-if-political-situation-not-agreeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/14\/wijeyadasa-to-quit-politics-if-political-situation-not-agreeable\/","title":{"rendered":"Wijeyadasa to quit politics if political situation not agreeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ajith Siriwardana <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said he would not contest the upcoming parliamentary election if there was no congenial political atmosphere in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, as a civilian, will do some social service and will continue my profession,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Rajapakshe said he would only support a presidential candidate after considering his past records, political maturity, education and added that he should be able to uphold democracy and work for the betterment of his own country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prospective candidate should have a programme to bring down the two million women employed in the Middle East as housemaids to Sri Lanka and support them develop their economy. And also he should have a programme to use the labour of two million youths employed as three-wheeler riders productively. He should guarantee to carry forward the policy of C.W.W. Kannangara,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about the UNP presidential candidate, he said it was a waste of time to talk about it and said people had already rejected the UNP as a party which sells the country and divides it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told a news conference on Thursday that he was ready to face any disciplinary action taken by the UNP and that he was waiting for such a move by the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNP has a right to take disciplinary action and we also have a right to go to court. They have to do that with the party constitution prepared by me and Thilak Marapana.,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said he would not contest the upcoming parliamentary election if there was no congenial political atmosphere in the country. I, as a civilian, will do some social service and will continue my profession,\u201d he said. Mr. Rajapakshe said he would only support a presidential candidate after [&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-92984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92984","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=92984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}