{"id":38678,"date":"2015-02-17T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38678"},"modified":"2015-02-17T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:34:53","slug":"western-chief-minister-prasanna-ranatunga-will-participate-at-nugegoda-rally-calling-for-mahinda-rajapaksa-as-pm-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38678","title":{"rendered":"Western Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga will Participate at Nugegoda Rally Calling for Mahinda Rajapaksa as PM Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Western province Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga yesterday declared that he would participate at today\u2019s Nugegoda meeting organised by some of UPFA\u2019s constituents calling for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s return to active politics.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe National Freedom Front (NFF), the MEP and the Democratic Left Front (DLF) want the SLFP to declare Mahinda Rajapaksa as the UPFA\u2019s prime ministerial candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga said that he couldn\u2019t turn his back on the former President after having faithfully supported his recent presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga pointed out that the likes of Azath Sally had ridiculed the former President by claiming that the Nugegoda meeting wouldn\u2019t attract even 5,000 persons.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former President\u2019s spokesman Mohan Samaranayake told The Island yesterday that various interested parties had been propagating lies to undermine Rajapaksa\u2019s political career. Samaranayake emphasised that there was absolutely no basis for recent speculative reports that the former President had confided to some close associates that he wasn\u2019t keen to continue in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to a letter dated Feb. 14 sent by the former President to the SLFP Central Committee, Samaranayake said that the veteran politician had stated in no uncertain terms that he remained with the party and wouldn\u2019t desert supporters under any circumstances.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton38678\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D38678&amp;text=Western%20Chief%20Minister%20Prasanna%20Ranatunga%20will%20Participate%20at%20Nugegoda%20Rally%20Calling%20for%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20as...%20&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>Western province Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga yesterday declared that he would participate at today\u2019s Nugegoda meeting organised by some of UPFA\u2019s constituents calling for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s return to active politics. The National Freedom Front (NFF), the MEP and the Democratic Left Front (DLF) want the SLFP to declare Mahinda Rajapaksa as the UPFA\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Western Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga will Participate at Nugegoda Rally Calling for Mahinda Rajapaksa as PM Candidate&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\/38678"}],"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=38678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38679,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions\/38679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}