{"id":35165,"date":"2014-11-21T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35165"},"modified":"2014-11-21T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T03:25:08","slug":"chandrika-kumaratunga-announces-return-to-slfp-to-back-maithripala-sirisena-at-presidential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35165","title":{"rendered":"Chandrika Kumaratunga Announces Return to SLFP to Back Maithripala Sirisena at Presidential Poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<strong>By  <\/p>\n<p>Deepal Warnakulasuriya <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge said that she had come back home to the SLFP through today&#8217;s move to back Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s candidature as the common candidate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35197\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/35165\/b3apxkgcuaayzjm\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35197\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35197\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/B3ApXkGCUAAYzjM.jpg\" alt=\"Press Briefing-Nov 21, 2014\" width=\"598\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Press Briefing-Nov 21, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Addressing the special media briefing today said she was forced out of the SLFP on her birth day and no one stood up for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked President rajapaksa to take the party leadership in a responsible manner, but he didn&#8217;t want to listen me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe one who won the war was sent to the prison. The rulers behave as no issues in the country to solve. I am not greed for power. I have decided to help Maithripala and the team for the sake of the country. Politics means serving the public and not making money,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: The Nation<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35165\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35165&amp;text=Chandrika%20Kumaratunga%20Announces%20Return%20to%20SLFP%20to%20Back%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20at%20Presidential%20Poll.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deepal Warnakulasuriya Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge said that she had come back home to the SLFP through today&#8217;s move to back Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s candidature as the common candidate. Addressing the special media briefing today said she was forced out of the SLFP on her birth day and no one stood up for her. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Chandrika Kumaratunga Announces Return to SLFP to Back Maithripala Sirisena at Presidential Poll.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35198,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions\/35198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}