{"id":95425,"date":"2019-11-20T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95425"},"modified":"2019-11-20T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:26:57","slug":"sajith-not-ready-engage-in-politics-under-current-unp-leadership-harin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/20\/sajith-not-ready-engage-in-politics-under-current-unp-leadership-harin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith not ready engage in politics under current UNP leadership &#8211; Harin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>MP Harin Fernando stated that neither he nor Sajith Premadasa is ready to further engage in politics unless there is a change in the current leadership of the United National Party (UNP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference held today (20th) Fernando said another party will have to be formed if it should happen so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the party itself says that the party got Sajith Premadasa into this problematic situation.<\/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=\"\u0dad\u0dd2\u0db6\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dba \u0dc3\u0db8\u0d9c \u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dba \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0dd6\u0daf\u0dcf\u0db1\u0db8\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd1... \u0dc4\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0db1\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYvkB2mgIMY?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>When inquired what the next step would be if Ranil Wickremesinghe refuses to step down from UNP leadership, Fernando said that they will move forward by forming a new party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stating that Sajith Premadasa had informed that he would not continue in politics if certain positions in the party don\u2019t see a change, Fernando stated that if it doesn\u2019t happen, they would find another path to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Sports Minister further said that he is happy that the incumbent President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has engaged a different kind of politics today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana MP Harin Fernando stated that neither he nor Sajith Premadasa is ready to further engage in politics unless there is a change in the current leadership of the United National Party (UNP). Speaking at a press conference held today (20th) Fernando said another party will have to be formed if it should happen [&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-95425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95425","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=95425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}