{"id":99491,"date":"2020-03-01T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99491"},"modified":"2020-03-01T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:47:30","slug":"unp-working-comm-settles-on-elephant-symbol-sajith-faction-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/01\/unp-working-comm-settles-on-elephant-symbol-sajith-faction-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP Working Comm. settles on \u2018Elephant\u2019 symbol; Sajith faction disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The majority of the United National Party (UNP) Working Committee has agreed to contest the upcoming general election under the election symbol \u2018Elephant\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Sajith Premadasa faction has not agreed to the decision, sources told Ada Derana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special meeting of the UNP Working Committee was held at Sirikotha \u2013UNP Headquarters, today (01), to arrive at a final decision on the party\u2019s election symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was chaired by Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The majority of the United National Party (UNP) Working Committee has agreed to contest the upcoming general election under the election symbol \u2018Elephant\u2019. However, the Sajith Premadasa faction has not agreed to the decision, sources told Ada Derana. A special meeting of the UNP Working Committee was held at Sirikotha \u2013UNP Headquarters, today [&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-99491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99491","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=99491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}