{"id":99305,"date":"2020-02-25T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T23:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99305"},"modified":"2020-02-25T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T23:21:51","slug":"sri-lanka-nidahas-podujana-sandhanaya-holds-first-executive-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/25\/sri-lanka-nidahas-podujana-sandhanaya-holds-first-executive-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandhanaya\u2019 holds first executive council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The first meeting of the executive council of \u2018Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandhanaya\u2019, chaired by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, was held at the Temple Trees this afternoon (25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was attended by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former President Maithripala Sirisena and the architect of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Basil Rajapaksa.<\/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=\"\u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf \u0db1\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dc4\u0dc3\u0dca \u0db4\u0ddc\u0daf\u0dd4\u0da2\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca\u0db0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dba\u0da7 \u0dad\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2 05 \u0d9a\u0dca \u0d91\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8\u0da7 \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dd2... \u0db6\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dbd\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXi2ln7lrYg?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>The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, Sri Lanka People\u2019s Party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Communist Party of Sri Lanka, National Freedom Front, Democratic Left Front and Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya had taken part in this meeting as political parties representing the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executive council has approved the proposal to incorporate 5 new political parties into the alliance, which already consists of nine other parties. Accordingly, Eelam People\u2019s Democratic Party, Ceylon Workers\u2019 Congress, National Congress, Tamil Mahajana Vimukthi Sanvidhanaya and United People\u2019s Party will represent Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandhanaya in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council also approved the proposals to appoint Minister Dinesh Gunawardena as a deputy chairman of the alliance and Minister Wimal Weerawansa as its national organizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The first meeting of the executive council of \u2018Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandhanaya\u2019, chaired by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, was held at the Temple Trees this afternoon (25). The meeting was attended by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former President Maithripala Sirisena and the architect of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Basil Rajapaksa. The Sri [&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-99305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99305","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=99305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}