{"id":45373,"date":"2016-02-22T21:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45373"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:33:41","slug":"unp-and-slfp-members-of-govt-parliamentary-group-to-meet-separately-for-first-time-due-to-caustic-remarks-of-mangala-samaraweera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45373","title":{"rendered":"UNP and SLFP Members of Govt Parliamentary Group to Meet Separately for First time Due to Caustic Remarks of Mangala Samaraweera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daya Lankapura<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government parliamentary group that has met so far as a single entity is scheduled to meet as two separate groups for the first time at 11.30 am today at the Parliament complex.<\/p>\n<p>The UNP group will meet under the leadership of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, while the SLFP MPs of the government would gather with Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva presiding.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The government members of the UNP and the SLFP used to meet as a single group till the last meeting when Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera made a caustic remark regarding SLFP members in the government.<\/p>\n<p>SLFP Members protested the Minister\u2019s statement and decided to meet separately thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton45373\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D45373&amp;text=UNP%20and%20SLFP%20Members%20of%20Govt%20Parliamentary%20Group%20to%20Meet%20Separately%20for%20First%20time%20Due%20to%20Caustic%20Remarks%20of...%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 Daya Lankapura The government parliamentary group that has met so far as a single entity is scheduled to meet as two separate groups for the first time at 11.30 am today at the Parliament complex. The UNP group will meet under the leadership of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, while the SLFP MPs of the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;UNP and SLFP Members of Govt Parliamentary Group to Meet Separately for First time Due to Caustic Remarks of Mangala Samaraweera&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\/45373"}],"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=45373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45374,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45373\/revisions\/45374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}