{"id":42980,"date":"2015-09-01T01:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42980"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:44:32","slug":"karu-jayasuriya-of-unp-elected-unanimously-as-speakerslfps-thilanga-sumathipala-deputy-speaker-amirtharaj-adaikkalanathan-alias-selvamof-tna-deputy-chairman-of-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42980","title":{"rendered":"Karu Jayasuriya of UNP  Elected Unanimously as Speaker:SLFP&#8217;s Thilanga Sumathipala -Deputy Speaker. Amirtharaj Adaikkalanathan alias &#8220;Selvam&#8221;of TNA -Deputy Chairman of Committees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senior United National Party Leader and National List MP Karunananda Jayasuriya has been  elected unanmously as Speaker of Parliament.  The name of &#8220;Karu&#8221; as he is popularly known was proposed by  Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and seconded by Nimal Siripala de Silva.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) national list MP Thilanga Sumathipala was elected unopposed as deputy speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) Leader Amirtharaj Adaikkalanathan alias &#8220;Selvam&#8221; who  was elected to Parliament from Wanni district on the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) party ticket is the new deputy chairman of committees.The TELO is a constituenr of the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) which contested elections under the ITAK symbol of House.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton42980\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D42980&amp;text=Karu%20Jayasuriya%20of%20UNP%20%20Elected%20Unanimously%20as%20Speaker%3ASLFP%26%238217%3Bs%20Thilanga%20Sumathipala%20-Deputy%20Speaker....%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>Senior United National Party Leader and National List MP Karunananda Jayasuriya has been elected unanmously as Speaker of Parliament. The name of &#8220;Karu&#8221; as he is popularly known was proposed by Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and seconded by Nimal Siripala de Silva.<\/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\/42980"}],"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=42980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42981,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42980\/revisions\/42981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}