{"id":42756,"date":"2015-08-19T20:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2015-08-19T20:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:44:54","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-states-he-will-continue-to-engage-in-politics-and-function-within-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42756","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa States he will Continue to Engage in Politics and Function Within Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dasun Edirisinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that he would continue in politics to honour the vote at Monday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would go to Parliament as a newly elected member on Sept. 01.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I accept with humility the result of the just concluded parliamentary election. I thank the voters who reposed their confidence in our party despite the unprecedented obstacles that we had to face,&#8221; Rajapaksa said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> The former President said that he would function as a parliamentarian to safeguard the nation and democratic system as he had always done with commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he would function as the Opposition Leader in the 8th Parliament, a close associate of the former President said no such decision had been made yet.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa also thanked all supporters of the SLFP led UPFA for helping him to secure nearly half a million preferential votes from the Kurunegala District. &#8220;I will continue to engage in politics in keeping with the people\u2019s mandate and I will function within Parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa secured 423,529 preferential votes at August 17 election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton42756\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D42756&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20States%20he%20will%20Continue%20to%20Engage%20in%20Politics%20and%20Function%20Within%20Parliament&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 Dasun Edirisinghe Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that he would continue in politics to honour the vote at Monday\u2019s election. He said that he would go to Parliament as a newly elected member on Sept. 01. &#8220;I accept with humility the result of the just concluded parliamentary election. I thank the voters who &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa States he will Continue to Engage in Politics and Function Within Parliament&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\/42756"}],"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=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42757,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions\/42757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}