{"id":35810,"date":"2014-12-05T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35810"},"modified":"2014-12-05T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:05:18","slug":"bodu-bala-sena-will-be-responsible-to-the-buddha-and-not-endorse-any-candidate-at-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35810","title":{"rendered":"Bodu Bala Sena will be Responsible to the Buddha and Wont Endorse Any Candidate at the Presidential Election."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<br \/>\nDharisha Bastians<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retracting a previous statement, the Bodu Bala Sena yesterday insisted it was not officially endorsing either of the main candidates at the January presidential election.<\/p>\n<p> Speaking at a rally in Hyde Park yesterday, BBS General Secretary Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thero told crowds that the group had decided to act independently at the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to sign agreements with anyone. Then we will have to take that agreement forward. We are going to be responsible to the Buddha. We will act independently to defeat the conspiracy against the country,\u201d the controversial priest asserted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gnansara Thero claimed that the common man had no interest in the abolition of the presidency.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the presidency is abolished, the balance between the Parliament and the Executive will be shattered,\u201d the priest claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that needed to be done was to reform the electoral system, he charged.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is what the Sinhalese leaders would focus on if they loved this country,\u201d Gnanasara Thero said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35810\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35810&amp;text=Bodu%20Bala%20Sena%20will%20be%20Responsible%20to%20the%20Buddha%20and%20Wont%20Endorse%20Any%20Candidate%20at%20the%20Presidential%20Election.&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 Retracting a previous statement, the Bodu Bala Sena yesterday insisted it was not officially endorsing either of the main candidates at the January presidential election. Speaking at a rally in Hyde Park yesterday, BBS General Secretary Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thero told crowds that the group had decided to act independently at the elections. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Bodu Bala Sena will be Responsible to the Buddha and Wont Endorse Any Candidate at the Presidential Election.&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\/35810"}],"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=35810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35812,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions\/35812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}