{"id":35364,"date":"2014-11-25T22:58:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35364"},"modified":"2014-11-25T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T04:05:13","slug":"president-rajapaksa-will-himself-end-the-executive-presidency-before-2020-says-minister-dullas-alahapperuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35364","title":{"rendered":"President Rajapaksa will Himself End the Executive Presidency Before 2020 says Minister  Dullas Alahapperuma."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Nadira Gunatilleke<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19009\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/19006\/mr032413mr\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19009\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19009\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MR032413MR-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the opening ceremony if an Exhibition in Ampara, Mar 23, 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19009\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the opening ceremony if an Exhibition in Ampara, Mar 23, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When all international challenges, the LTTE threat and the threat of separatism ends, President Mahinda Rajapaksa will himself declare that he is the last Executive President of Sri Lanka, SLFP Treasurer and Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told the Daily News yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Alahapperuma said the day President Rajapaksa announces an end to the Executive Presidency will come definitely before 2020 (2015-2020). Till then \u201cSri Lanka will go forward and thrive with the Executive Presidency and defeat all existing challenges in the next few years,\u201d he said. The minister said there is a major difference between unity and \u201corganising things as a gang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can call the current behaviour of the Opposition \u2018unity\u2019 because this is only \u2018hanging around\u2019 or a herding together to achieve a target which is the election victory, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Alahapperuma pointed out that the life expectancy of such gangs or herds end after the decisive day or after passing a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no gang or a herd after the Presidential Election day. This happened during the 2010 Presidential Election. Even a new political party, the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) was formed and a new alliance was formed. But after the Presidential Election none exist. Everything vanished into thin air,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Alahapperuma stressed that a DNA test must be performed on the \u2018DNA\u2019 to find out its origin and the current position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the so called leaders of the DNA cannot sit together on one stage.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka needs a healthy opposition. Unity is required in the opposition. It is required for democracy,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35364\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35364&amp;text=President%20Rajapaksa%20will%20Himself%20End%20the%20Executive%20Presidency%20Before%202020%20says%20Minister%20%20Dullas%20Alahapperuma.&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 Nadira Gunatilleke When all international challenges, the LTTE threat and the threat of separatism ends, President Mahinda Rajapaksa will himself declare that he is the last Executive President of Sri Lanka, SLFP Treasurer and Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told the Daily News yesterday. Minister Alahapperuma said the day President Rajapaksa &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Rajapaksa will Himself End the Executive Presidency Before 2020 says Minister  Dullas Alahapperuma.&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\/35364"}],"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=35364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35366,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35364\/revisions\/35366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}