{"id":35374,"date":"2014-11-26T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35374"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:35:20","slug":"opposition-also-has-fileson-the-activities-of-the-rajapaksas-chandrika-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35374","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Opposition also has &#8220;Files&#8221;on the Activities of the Rajapaksas&#8221;-Chandrika Hits Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy<\/p>\n<p> Dharisha Bastians<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presidential challenger Maithripala Sirisena hit back against the Government yesterday, saying his removal as General Secretary of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still the legal General Secretary of the SLFP,\u201d Sirisena said, as he addressed media personnel following a visit to the Bandaranaike Memorial in Horagolla.<\/p>\n<p>Due process had not been followed in the stripping of his SLFP membership and his position in the party, the Opposition candidate explained.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole country has realised that the powers of the executive presidency are too much,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why no more MPs had crossed over from the UPFA coalition, Sirisena used a pithy local saying to insist that there would be more developments in the days to come.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who accompanied Sirisena to her ancestral home, issued a scathing criticism of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, saying the Opposition also had \u2018files\u2019 on his family\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Government\u2019s allegation that the common Opposition platform was a Western conspiracy, was old hat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey robbed this country raw and now speak of Western conspiracies. That is their most standard excuse. What is this conspiracy? Tell him to substantiate this claim,\u201d she charged.<\/p>\n<p>DNA MP Arjuna Ranatunga, who also travelled to Horagolla yesterday, said that if the President was seeking to hold ministers back in his Government with the threat of \u2018files,\u2019 that was proof that the country was facing a crisis situation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35374\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35374&amp;text=%26%238220%3BOpposition%20also%20has%20%26%238220%3BFiles%26%238221%3Bon%20the%20Activities%20of%20the%20Rajapaksas%26%238221%3B-Chandrika%20Hits%20Back%21&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 Dharisha Bastians Presidential challenger Maithripala Sirisena hit back against the Government yesterday, saying his removal as General Secretary of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was unlawful. \u201cI am still the legal General Secretary of the SLFP,\u201d Sirisena said, as he addressed media personnel following a visit to the Bandaranaike Memorial in Horagolla. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Opposition also has &#8220;Files&#8221;on the Activities of the Rajapaksas&#8221;-Chandrika Hits Back!&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\/35374"}],"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=35374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35375,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions\/35375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}