{"id":44531,"date":"2015-12-19T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44531"},"modified":"2015-12-19T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:37:48","slug":"protest-attempt-by-unp-badulla-disrict-mp-suresh-vadivel-to-set-himself-on-fire-in-parliament-prevented-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44531","title":{"rendered":"Protest Attempt by UNP Badulla Disrict MP Vadivel Suresh  to Set Himself on Fire in Parliament Prevented by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police yesterday thwarted an attempt by Parliamentarian Vadivel Suresh  to carry two cans of kerosene into Parliament, allegedly to carry out his threat to set himself on fire in protest against the Government\u2019s failure to address the plantations sector wage dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Badulla District UNP MP was stopped by the policemen on duty, while his parliament colleagues who gathered at the entrance persuaded him to give up his plan.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on Friday, in Parliament, Mr. Vadiwel hit out at the Government\u2019s inaction and threatened to set himself on fire if no action was taken to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p> His speech came against the backdrop of failed talks between trade unions and the Labour Minister this week. Following the threat, additional police personnel were placed at the entrance to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton44531\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D44531&amp;text=Protest%20Attempt%20by%20UNP%20Badulla%20Disrict%20MP%20Vadivel%20Suresh%20%20to%20Set%20Himself%20on%20Fire%20in%20Parliament%20Prevented%20by%20Police&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>Police yesterday thwarted an attempt by Parliamentarian Vadivel Suresh to carry two cans of kerosene into Parliament, allegedly to carry out his threat to set himself on fire in protest against the Government\u2019s failure to address the plantations sector wage dispute.<\/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\/44531"}],"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=44531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44552,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44531\/revisions\/44552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}