{"id":43824,"date":"2015-11-02T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43824"},"modified":"2015-11-02T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:49:39","slug":"25-slfp-mps-and-several-opposition-parties-discuss-with-mahinda-rajapaksa-about-forming-united-opposition-against-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43824","title":{"rendered":"25 SLFP MP&#8217;s and Several Opposition parties Discuss with Mahinda Rajapaksa About Forming \u201cunited opposition\u201d Against UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy<\/p>\n<p>Kamal Jayamanna<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSeveral opposition political parties have already held discussions with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on forming a \u201cunited opposition\u201d before the Local Government election, UPFA Parliamentarian Vasudewa Nanayakkara said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 25 Parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) too attended the discussion, Nanayakkaa told the Daily News yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll parties of the UPFA coalition, except the SLFP, are on the same page about the matter. We need former President Rajapaksa\u2019s blessings to proceed with this initiative,\u201d Nanayakkara said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The main objective behind forming a united opposition, Nanayakkara said, would be to form a common force against the UNP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SLFP is not ready to fulfill the duties of the opposition. It has formed a coalition government with the UNP. Therefore, we had to make a drastic move to form an alternate opposition,\u201d Nanayakkara said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, highly placed sources of the UPFA said the new coalition would not be able to use the name and the official symbol of the UPFA of which the SLFP is the main stakeholder. \u201cThe General Secretary is the \u2018custodian\u2019 of the party\u2019s name and the symbol. UPFA General Secretary, Prof. Vishwa Warnapala was appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena and his loyalty lies with the President. He will not encourage any move against President Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the President still functions as the Chairman of the UPFA,\u201d a UPFA Parliamentarian, who wished to remain anonymous said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton43824\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D43824&amp;text=25%20SLFP%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20and%20Several%20Opposition%20parties%20Discuss%20with%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20About%20Forming%20%E2%80%9Cunited...%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>By Kamal Jayamanna Several opposition political parties have already held discussions with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on forming a \u201cunited opposition\u201d before the Local Government election, UPFA Parliamentarian Vasudewa Nanayakkara said. Nearly 25 Parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) too attended the discussion, Nanayakkaa told the Daily News yesterday. \u201cAll parties of the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;25 SLFP MP&#8217;s and Several Opposition parties Discuss with Mahinda Rajapaksa About Forming \u201cunited opposition\u201d Against UNP&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\/43824"}],"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=43824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43825,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824\/revisions\/43825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}