{"id":99651,"date":"2020-03-05T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99651"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:58:39","slug":"sirisena-a-political-liability-should-not-be-given-nomination-from-slpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/05\/sirisena-a-political-liability-should-not-be-given-nomination-from-slpp\/","title":{"rendered":"SIRISENA- A POLITICAL LIABILITY, SHOULD NOT  BE GIVEN NOMINATION FROM SLPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sometimes\nwe need to call a spade a spade.&nbsp; Sirisena is a political Bastard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any associations with Sirisena is fraught with danger. His future political moves have been explained by Sirisena himself in public.\u00a0 Though he is claiming to work hard to give 2\/3rd majority to President Gotabaya, he hates all Rajapaksa\u2019s. During the recently concluded Presidential Election, Sirisena worked behind the scene to support Sajith Premadasa, pretending that he was remaining neutral during the period of the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the upcoming election, massive protests are planned against Sirisena.\u00a0 To bring Sirisena to the same stage with Rajapakse\u2019s could cause voter anger against SLPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Leadership of SLPP must decide to prevent Sirisena from obtaining nominations from SLPP, even if it will bring an end to the so-called Alliance with SLFP<\/strong>.\u00a0 Most former MPs, except 4, will join the Rajapakse team if SLPP gives the nod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sometimes we need to call a spade a spade.&nbsp; Sirisena is a political Bastard. Any associations with Sirisena is fraught with danger. His future political moves have been explained by Sirisena himself in public.\u00a0 Though he is claiming to work hard to give 2\/3rd majority to President Gotabaya, he hates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99651","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=99651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}