{"id":41925,"date":"2015-06-30T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41925"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:46:52","slug":"if-defeated-ex-president-mahinda-wants-to-be-prime-minister-then-undefeated-ex-president-chandrika-will-also-contest-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41925","title":{"rendered":"If Defeated Ex-President Mahinda Wants to be Prime Minister  then  Undefeated Ex- President Chandrika will also Contest Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not to be outdone by the antics of her presidential successor, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga threw her hat into the ring yesterday, vowing to contest in the 17 August parliamentary poll as the SLFP prime ministerial candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Private Secretary to Kumaratunga, P. Dissanayake issuing a statement, said the former President would contest from the SLFP or the UPFA from the Gampaha District.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are strongly urging her to contest as the party\u2019s PM candidate,\u201d Dissanayake said.<br \/>\nHe said she had not accepted that request so far because she had always maintained she had retired from politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if defeated presidents from the party were staking a claim, as an undefeated leader of the country, she has the right to request the party for the same nomination,\u201d Kumaratunga\u2019s aide said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has every right to contest, this is the party her father created, therefore she will definitely contest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton41925\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D41925&amp;text=If%20Defeated%20Ex-President%20Mahinda%20Wants%20to%20be%20Prime%20Minister%20%20then%20%20Undefeated%20Ex-%20President%20Chandrika%20will...%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>Not to be outdone by the antics of her presidential successor, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga threw her hat into the ring yesterday, vowing to contest in the 17 August parliamentary poll as the SLFP prime ministerial candidate. Private Secretary to Kumaratunga, P. Dissanayake issuing a statement, said the former President would contest from the SLFP &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;If Defeated Ex-President Mahinda Wants to be Prime Minister  then  Undefeated Ex- President Chandrika will also Contest Polls&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\/41925"}],"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=41925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41926,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41925\/revisions\/41926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}